He wrote a secret memorandum after his 1784 visit to Vienna which is among the most vicious thing ever written about Joseph.
I... I think that I need to hear more about this :P
having had fainting fits and very painful bouts of urine retention and a gangrenous sore in the vagina.
OMG, poor Maria Carolina :(
(The Joseph and Leopold correspondence: speaking in anatomically frank terms about their sisters' and brothers-in-laws genitalia, thus ensuring these letters won't be printed until the later 20th century.)
AHAHAHAHA
But then, while she was both ill and pregnant, the king forced himself upon her. Relations between them had now, unsurprisingly, become very bad, increasing the political difficulties. Joseph declared the King "a monster", and he and Leopold tried to help and advise her, as she requested, but she paid little attention to what they said.
OMG :(
(Also, I am really wishing now Goldstone had been more reliable, because this is all clearly fascinating and I would have loved an accurate historical-romance-anecdote-filled-history, as opposed to what we got.)
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Re: Derek Beales: Joseph II, Volume 2: Against the World, 1780 - 1790 - B
Date: 2022-01-13 06:11 am (UTC)I... I think that I need to hear more about this :P
having had fainting fits and very painful bouts of urine retention and a gangrenous sore in the vagina.
OMG, poor Maria Carolina :(
(The Joseph and Leopold correspondence: speaking in anatomically frank terms about their sisters' and brothers-in-laws genitalia, thus ensuring these letters won't be printed until the later 20th century.)
AHAHAHAHA
But then, while she was both ill and pregnant, the king forced himself upon her. Relations between them had now, unsurprisingly, become very bad, increasing the political difficulties. Joseph declared the King "a monster", and he and Leopold tried to help and advise her, as she requested, but she paid little attention to what they said.
OMG :(
(Also, I am really wishing now Goldstone had been more reliable, because this is all clearly fascinating and I would have loved an accurate historical-romance-anecdote-filled-history, as opposed to what we got.)