mildred_of_midgard: (Default)

Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach- III: Gloriana

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2021-08-01 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I've already asked how you think FW would respond; now I'm asking how Wilhelmine and Fritz would?

Ooh, that's a really good question. What year is this, remind me?
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Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach- III: Gloriana

[personal profile] selenak 2021-08-02 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Well, in rl Fritz of Wales arrives in London and gets reintroduced to his (un)loving family at 7 pm on a dark December evening in 1728, so if he'd gone to Berlin instead, it would have been around this time (i.e. say, November 1728?) Of course, back then he didn't know how badly things would get with Mom and Dad, so he wouldn't have sought asylum yet. For that, the perfect year is...drumroll... 1730, when G2 at January 31st is observed by courtiers in public jesting with son William about what a fabulous King he'd make while simultanously refusing to grant Fritz of Wales more than a third of the budget George Augustus himself had had as Prince of Wales, with the argument that FoW isn't married, which doesn't look as if it's about to change soon given G2's enthusiasm for the Prussian marriage project....