Frederick the Great and Other 18th-C Characters, Discussion Post 31

[cahn]

And in this post:

-luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!

-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!

-mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War

(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)

-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D

Comments

Re: Königsmarck and Hannovers

[selenak]

The "forgeries" claim has long since been dismissed. It was originally made by the later Hannovers on the British throne for obvious reasons, and the online Britannica articles are decades, if not centuries behind. But seriously, by the 1920s and Schnath's time it was already generally accepted that the letters were the real deal.

(BTW, Fritz and Ulrike had no doubt about that just a measly few decades after the event, either.)

Re: Königsmarck and Hannovers

[cahn]

Oh, excellent. I should certainly have been suspicious of an article whose latest citation was from 1900... :)