And when does young future F1 start to wonder about stepmom? In 1677.
Aahhh, this makes so much sense! So glad we (mostly you) pursued finding out more!
1) F1 after drinking a cup of mocca coffee at his stepmom's table collapses. Danckelmann (as far as F1 is concerned) saves his life by giving him a digestive that makes him throw up.
Oh, wow, that is way more detail than we had.
Without this, his grandson could never have become Frederick the Great, but you wouldn't know it from his constant granddad bashing. Why yes, F2 is my red button in this biography.
One Man Defense Squad to the rescue! Well, Fritz had some issues to work out. Poetry, music, and dogs only go so far: therapy via history-writing is important too! :P
I'm completely blaming him for 200 years of F1 dissings.
Fritz had some issues to work out. Poetry, music, and dogs only go so far: therapy via history-writing is important too!
Quite. :) And hey, cheaper than F1's own therapy which involved lots of ceremonies and splendor. (And ordering a copy of the Dauphin's wedding suit for his son.)
re: the poison suspicion, another who believed this had happened was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel who wrote in his diary when F1's brother Ludwig had died that it surely was poison - and this predates F1 visiting Kassel by months, so F1 isn't the source of the idea (and Sophie isn't, either.) It was the mental equation people drew out of the combination of the big and unforgotten Versailles scandal and knowing that relations between the Elector and his sons from the first marriage were going downhill, plus the usual reflex of stepmother/woman blaming.
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Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: The Affair of the Poisons (Prussian Edition)
Date: 2021-08-07 11:40 pm (UTC)Aahhh, this makes so much sense! So glad we (mostly you) pursued finding out more!
1) F1 after drinking a cup of mocca coffee at his stepmom's table collapses. Danckelmann (as far as F1 is concerned) saves his life by giving him a digestive that makes him throw up.
Oh, wow, that is way more detail than we had.
Without this, his grandson could never have become Frederick the Great, but you wouldn't know it from his constant granddad bashing. Why yes, F2 is my red button in this biography.
One Man Defense Squad to the rescue! Well, Fritz had some issues to work out. Poetry, music, and dogs only go so far: therapy via history-writing is important too! :P
I'm completely blaming him for 200 years of F1 dissings.
FW2: Join the club, Great-grandpa.
Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: The Affair of the Poisons (Prussian Edition)
Date: 2021-08-08 02:02 pm (UTC)Quite. :) And hey, cheaper than F1's own therapy which involved lots of ceremonies and splendor. (And ordering a copy of the Dauphin's wedding suit for his son.)
re: the poison suspicion, another who believed this had happened was the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel who wrote in his diary when F1's brother Ludwig had died that it surely was poison - and this predates F1 visiting Kassel by months, so F1 isn't the source of the idea (and Sophie isn't, either.) It was the mental equation people drew out of the combination of the big and unforgotten Versailles scandal and knowing that relations between the Elector and his sons from the first marriage were going downhill, plus the usual reflex of stepmother/woman blaming.