18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Re: Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the Hatton take

[mildred_of_midgard]

G1: terrible husband and father both, then. /o\

To be fair to him, though, he was apparently much better with his mistress and their illegitimate daughters, i.e. his family of choice rather than the family forced on him by politics. He spent a lot of time with his mistress and daughters, and was more forgiving of one daughter's sexual peccadilloes (getting caught in adultery and then wanting a divorce) than her mother!