Re Selena asking what grudge FW held against G2, because there's a dearth of obvious legitimate ones.
I would say that it doesn't have to be anything nearly as rational as what you were looking for in that post. If they were getting into fistfights as kids, that suggests that they *already* hated each other, probably for childish reasons. Someone as short-tempered as FW would easily have carried that grudge into adulthood. After all, once you hate someone, you're prone to interpreting everything they do in the worst possible light, and heaping up grudges to add to your resentment. And I see no reason that two monarchs already not known for their warm and fuzzy personalities, who disliked each other intensely as children, would have seen their relations improve after becoming monarchs of countries with conflicting political interests.
It could have been as simple as G2, when they were kids, thinking that he should be able to boss FW around because he was older, and Tiny Terror FW, who pushed chamberlains out of windows when not threatening to throw himself out of a window rather than be told what to do, refusing to go along with it. The situation escalated, and thirty years later, they were still hating on each other. Only now they were squabbling over things like political influence in Mecklenburg and forcibly recruited soldiers.
In conclusion: you were an only child as far as I know, but I had siblings. ;)
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FW vs. George II
Date: 2022-01-15 09:19 pm (UTC)I would say that it doesn't have to be anything nearly as rational as what you were looking for in that post. If they were getting into fistfights as kids, that suggests that they *already* hated each other, probably for childish reasons. Someone as short-tempered as FW would easily have carried that grudge into adulthood. After all, once you hate someone, you're prone to interpreting everything they do in the worst possible light, and heaping up grudges to add to your resentment. And I see no reason that two monarchs already not known for their warm and fuzzy personalities, who disliked each other intensely as children, would have seen their relations improve after becoming monarchs of countries with conflicting political interests.
It could have been as simple as G2, when they were kids, thinking that he should be able to boss FW around because he was older, and Tiny Terror FW, who pushed chamberlains out of windows when not threatening to throw himself out of a window rather than be told what to do, refusing to go along with it. The situation escalated, and thirty years later, they were still hating on each other. Only now they were squabbling over things like political influence in Mecklenburg and forcibly recruited soldiers.
In conclusion: you were an only child as far as I know, but I had siblings. ;)