Oh, right, I remember this! I think it's in Horowski. Or someone else, but I remember reading it in German, and he's our hilarious tidbits guy.
(I may well have learned it in my Jacobite days*, but if so I forgot and had to relearn it in the last 2 years.)
* I did actually read a lot about the Jacobite+various weird societies/legends/occult connections, so it's quite likely I got this anecdote but forgot, since at the time I had no idea who Gustav III was.
Did he pay the money back, though?
According to Hatton, yes! The sum given to Sparre was promptly repaid at Charles' order as soon as he found out about it, and the money Görtz acquired privately was gradually paid back by the Swedish crown, with interest, until it was fully paid back in 1755.
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Re: Charles XII and the Jacobites
Date: 2021-11-18 07:39 pm (UTC)(I may well have learned it in my Jacobite days*, but if so I forgot and had to relearn it in the last 2 years.)
* I did actually read a lot about the Jacobite+various weird societies/legends/occult connections, so it's quite likely I got this anecdote but forgot, since at the time I had no idea who Gustav III was.
Did he pay the money back, though?
According to Hatton, yes! The sum given to Sparre was promptly repaid at Charles' order as soon as he found out about it, and the money Görtz acquired privately was gradually paid back by the Swedish crown, with interest, until it was fully paid back in 1755.