leads to Fritz snarking in that excellent work of history, Histoire de mon temps:
Lol!
he very much regrets Fritz wasn't able to see that Bernstorff was his only equal as a statesman in Europe at the time, the only other genius in a top position.
*blink*
I guess 300 years of historians have missed this too! Certainly salon has.
Bernstorff, who was in fact German, from Mecklenburg, (and didn't learn Danish in 20 years of ruling Denmark)
Fritz: This is not an obstacle to ruling a country.
After explaining that bribery wasn't unusual in that century (you think?)
Arneth: See!
Why is Juliana a Fritz fan? Because Juliana is Juliana of Braunschweig-Wolffensbüttel, (much younger) sister to EC and Louise (Juliana was born in 1729).
And that makes her a fan? :P
treating her better than any other family member (with the arguable exception of Louise in the post AW years) and certainly way better than his wife. Juliana remains a fan.
I see, I see. :P
More seriously, I hadn't realized there was this connection, so this is useful!
In conclusion: no, Mildred, you don't have to buy the book. But we do know a bit more than we did before.
This is the conclusion I had come to, yes. But thank you for telling us what we didn't already know!
One nice thing Juliana did: she took in the surviving siblings of locked up Czar Ivan IV. who were after all her nieces and nephews when Catherine finally released them from the end of the world. But she did have Catherine pay for their upkeep.
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Re: Prussian/Danish Relations according to Stephan Hartmann: The Fritz Era
Date: 2021-11-27 04:07 pm (UTC)Lol!
he very much regrets Fritz wasn't able to see that Bernstorff was his only equal as a statesman in Europe at the time, the only other genius in a top position.
*blink*
I guess 300 years of historians have missed this too! Certainly salon has.
Bernstorff, who was in fact German, from Mecklenburg, (and didn't learn Danish in 20 years of ruling Denmark)
Fritz: This is not an obstacle to ruling a country.
After explaining that bribery wasn't unusual in that century (you think?)
Arneth: See!
Why is Juliana a Fritz fan? Because Juliana is Juliana of Braunschweig-Wolffensbüttel, (much younger) sister to EC and Louise (Juliana was born in 1729).
And that makes her a fan? :P
treating her better than any other family member (with the arguable exception of Louise in the post AW years) and certainly way better than his wife. Juliana remains a fan.
I see, I see. :P
More seriously, I hadn't realized there was this connection, so this is useful!
In conclusion: no, Mildred, you don't have to buy the book. But we do know a bit more than we did before.
This is the conclusion I had come to, yes. But thank you for telling us what we didn't already know!
One nice thing Juliana did: she took in the surviving siblings of locked up Czar Ivan IV. who were after all her nieces and nephews when Catherine finally released them from the end of the world. But she did have Catherine pay for their upkeep.
Oh, that was her! So many connections...