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

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From:

mildred_of_midgard

Ha, yes. In the AU where William adopts FW and FW thus becomes King of GB, I foresee a sudden dearth of all Irish and Scottish tall men in addition to the English and Welsh ones...

Let's not forget that one of the tallest kidnapped tall guys, James Kirkland, was Irish even in our universe! As Felis told us, "Which cost FW 8862 thaler! Even Förster called that wasteful spending."

:D

Per Wikipedia:

It is claimed that he was accompanied in the regiment by other tall soldiers from Ireland.

I believe it!

As for people he *didn't* have conflicts with over recruiting, I don't remember any with Peter the Great, but there may have been some. (I still love our never-written AU where Peter's incognito trip across Europe overlaps chronologically with FW's kidnapping of tall soldiers--in reality,

cahn, FW became king some 15 years too late--and nobody believes Potsdam Giant Peter when he claims to be the tsar of Russia!)

Edited Date: 2021-11-20 08:02 pm (UTC)

From:

selenak

I still love that AU idea as well, and hey, it's fine Shakespearean tradition, what with him making Hal and Percy Hotspur the same age instead of a generation apart, and letting future Richard III first show up and plot in Henry VI, Part 2 when historical Richard was all of three years old.

Now that you've read more about Peter, what's your opinion on which option out of a mix of "kill FW, have an affair with SD, have an affair with Fritz" he's likely to take? Or will he keep his temper and convince FW of the truth?

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Hmmm. Realistically, "kll FW" seems most in-character, the man's temper was stronger than his sex drive. OTOH, the prospect of killing a fellow monarch might stay his hand.

"Have an affair with Fritz": with the caveat that the grand old tradition of "no homo" may apply to Peter too, this seems least likely. Even pedophilic author who wants everyone to be gay (and if he can't make them gay, they are "scum" and "slime") only cited one extreeemely dubious primary source for Peter the Great fucking his buddy Menshikov.

"Have an affair with SD": unlikely on SD's part, but since we're going full-out crack in this AU, why not! He doesn't seem to have a major womanizer, but he had several known affairs with women, and if you're going to kill the husband anyway...

(Realistically realistically, I think there are enough people who can ID Peter that the truth comes out without FW being killed, but for crack, I'm game for all three outcomes!)