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

Comments

Re: Stuarts escaping the British government, reprised

[cahn]

Yesssss please do this!! That is, if it's not too hard on your hands -- your hands have to come first, of course! But there's no rush, we'll be here, so you can take as much time as you want! :) The problem is, you see, that I don't know enough at this point to ask questions!

Re: Stuarts escaping the British government, reprised

[luzula]

Well, if you just give me time, it will be no problem! : ) Should I do a lead-up with the 1688 revolution and the earlier Jacobite rebellions, too, as background?

Re: Stuarts escaping the British government, reprised

[mildred_of_midgard]

There's plenty of time going around! We've been talking about 18th century history here for over 2 years now.

I suggest starting with the '45, since it'll be easier on your hands and easier for cahn to process, and then we can backfill the rest afterwards.

Cahn, you basically just need to know that James II lost the throne in 1688-1689 for being 1) too Catholic 2) not politically savvy enough. His Protestant daughter Mary and son-in-law William of Extremely-Protestant-Orange took it away from him, then his Protestant daughter Anne succeeded them, and Catholics were henceforth forever disbarred from the British throne. (That's how the Hanovers ended up on the throne, because they were descended from the Winter Queen, sister of C1, and they were Protestant.)

Of course, James II tried to get the throne back, then his son tried to get the throne back, then his son (J2's grandson) BPC tried to get the throne back. This meant a series of Jacobite rebellions, culminating in the big famous one, in 1745, the "Forty-Five" aka "the '45", which luzula will proceed to tell you about, as [pronoun?] hands allow.

Just so it's also in salon and not just email, this is the scribbled family tree I emailed Cahn the other night, with the usual apologies for my handwriting:



Those in the know will see that I left out Henry Benedict. I think he can safely be left out of the beginner's lesson and added in later.

Cahn, you can mentally add C1's grandmother Mary, Queen of Scots to complete the theme. Losing your throne and/or head was kind of a tradition in this family.

Lehndorff: So weird!

J2: At least I escaped in time to keep my head! Unlike Dad.

Re: Stuarts escaping the British government, reprised

[luzula]

Well, I'll let you guys know when I'm ready, then! : )