And when does young future F1 start to wonder about stepmom? In 1677.
Huh. Interesting!
Instead of visiting him, he sent messages complaining of (Ludwig's) weakness and silly fear to die. (...) At last, Sire, he died only three rooms away from his father without having seen the later again.
WHAT. UGH.
It seems the final straw for her and her husband was that the Prince Elector replied to the joyful news brought by the Kurprinz that the princess was expecting again that maybe his daughter-in-law was expecting but that only God knew who caused it.
I think it is pretty awful that my first reaction to this was "well, I suppose that isn't QUITE as bad as the previous thing." Like... that is not a good sign... (Also, Rebenac seems to have all sorts of interesting gossip!)
Firstly, the Elector being awful to his sons is on him, not her.
I mean... he's got a point :P
Secondly, I'd like to point out that once the Elector had died and F1 had all the power, he was remarkably unvengeful to Stepmom, and actually got on well with his Schwedt half brothers, inviting them to court etc. If he really thought Dorothea, not Dad had been after his life, that's a bit odd. Methinks he probably thought Dad did but wasn't able to say so, hence blamed Stepmom.
Huh, that seems plausible to me.
Without this, his grandson could never have become Frederick the Great, but you wouldn't know it from his constant granddad bashing.
Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: The Affair of the Poisons (Prussian Edition)
Huh. Interesting!
Instead of visiting him, he sent messages complaining of (Ludwig's) weakness and silly fear to die. (...) At last, Sire, he died only three rooms away from his father without having seen the later again.
WHAT. UGH.
It seems the final straw for her and her husband was that the Prince Elector replied to the joyful news brought by the Kurprinz that the princess was expecting again that maybe his daughter-in-law was expecting but that only God knew who caused it.
I think it is pretty awful that my first reaction to this was "well, I suppose that isn't QUITE as bad as the previous thing." Like... that is not a good sign...
(Also, Rebenac seems to have all sorts of interesting gossip!)
Firstly, the Elector being awful to his sons is on him, not her.
I mean... he's got a point :P
Secondly, I'd like to point out that once the Elector had died and F1 had all the power, he was remarkably unvengeful to Stepmom, and actually got on well with his Schwedt half brothers, inviting them to court etc. If he really thought Dorothea, not Dad had been after his life, that's a bit odd. Methinks he probably thought Dad did but wasn't able to say so, hence blamed Stepmom.
Huh, that seems plausible to me.
Without this, his grandson could never have become Frederick the Great, but you wouldn't know it from his constant granddad bashing.
Hee!