Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 30

[cahn]

In which, despite the title, I would like to be told about the English Revolution, which is yet another casualty of my extremely poor history education :P :)

Also, this is probably the place to say that RMSE opened with three Fritz-fics, all of which I think are readable with minimum canon knowledge:

The Boy Who Lived - if you knew about the doomed escape-from-Prussia-that-didn't happen and tragic death of Fritz's boyfriend Hans Hermann von Katte, you may not have known about Peter Keith, the third young man who conspired to escape Prussia -- and the only one who actually did. This is his story. I think readable without canon knowledge except what I just said here.

Challenge Yourself to Relax - My gift, I posted about this before! Corporate AU with my problematic fave, Fritz' brother Heinrich, who's still Fritz's l'autre moi-meme even in corporate AU. Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with the corporate world and the dysfunctions thereof.

The Rise and Fall of the RendezvousWithFame Exchange - Fandom AU with BNF fanfic writer Voltaire, exchange mod Fritz, and the inevitable meltdown. (I wrote this one and am quite proud of the terrible physics-adjacent pun contained within.) Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with fandom and the dysfunctions thereof :P

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Re: The English Civil War: C2 - Most Famous Escape Story of the War

[luzula]

I am greatly enjoying this whole post, thanks for writing all this up! : D

However:
England, Scotland and France, if you're wondering. At this point, the British kings still called themselves "Kings of France". They'd keep doing that until Team Hannover got the crown and finally ditched that claim and the lily from the heralds

For fic research, I got the British Army Museum to photograph an 18th century captain's commission for me; it's from 1757 and definitely says "George the Second, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland..." So it seems they hadn't given up the claim.

(Also it very charmingly calls the captain "our trusty and welbeloved NN". I wish my employment contract said that.)

Re: The English Civil War: C2 - Most Famous Escape Story of the War

[mildred_of_midgard]

For fic research, I got the British Army Museum to photograph an 18th century captain's commission for me; it's from 1757 and definitely says "George the Second, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland..." So it seems they hadn't given up the claim.

I had always learned that it was the first decade of the 19th century (can't remember which year) when they gave it up, when Great Britain plus Ireland formally became the United Kingdom, and Wikipedia is backing my memory:

In 1800, the Act of Union joined the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland to a new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George III chose this opportunity to drop his claim to the now defunct French throne, whereupon the fleurs-de-lis, part of the coat of arms of all claimant Kings of France since the time of Edward III, was also removed from the British royal arms. Britain recognised the French Republic by the Treaty of Amiens of 1802.

Re: The English Civil War: C2 - Most Famous Escape Story of the War

[luzula]

Ah! Of course there's a Wikipedia page about it. : )

Re: The English Civil War: C2 - Most Famous Escape Story of the War

[cahn]

Heeeey luzula, mildred_of_midgard is telling me about the Jacobites and Culloden in the above thread, which I seem to remember is Relevant to Your Interests :)