Yep- It's also yet another factor why I think Fritz later fixated so on bashing F1 - grandparents are another issue, especially grandparents whose entire way of like has been thouroughly condemned by Dad. And let's not forget, those same historians condemning Wilhelmine for being a bad daughter due to the way she wrote about her parents, especially F1, in her memoirs, applaud Fritz for being "an honest historian" for the way he bashes F1 and lauds FW. If, by contrast, he'd have gone for a full on FW critique, I think they'd have felt uneasy and not known what to do, because on the one hand, legendary King and der Einzige, on the other, filial disrespect. I'm basing this on the way even later 19th and early 20th century historians are uneasy by his FW hostile comments from his letters to Wilhelmine in the 1730s. (Not least because they go against the treasured Hohenzollern image of FW & Fritz being entirely reconciled post August 1731.
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Also. Err. Think Fritz and AW.
Yeeeeah, true. Though I don't think this makes it better! :P
F1 blaming Stepmom because he couldn't blame Dad directly: Mind you, I think if that's what he did, it was more a subconscious decision.
Ohhhhh, sure, I buy that. I mean, like you've said before, there was a lot of societal pressure not to criticize one's parents, right?
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