18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Re: Agony Aunts (and Uncles)

[selenak]

Fritz: I knew Cocceji was no damn good for Barbarina! And I told the Swedes they'd regret Ulrike, and what did she do but try to stage a coup on them? For that matter, did Heinrich/Marwitz last? It did not. All this proves is that people who don't take my advice live to regret it!

Fritz could add he also correctly judged Schmeling/Mara, and for that matter, Heinrich/Mara, as well as Heinrich/Kaphengst - well, Heinrich/anyone in Fritz' lifetime, with one glaring exception, the Heinrich match he had personally arranged, i.e. Heinrich/Mina*. ("Women will do him good", anyone? He did write that to Wilhelmine.)

FW2: Agony-Inducing Uncle Fritz also arranged both my marriages.

Fritz: But I never said they would do you good. That was never the point.

*Fritz would undoubtedly point out that Heinrich chose Mina himself from the (tiny) set of princesses he could choose from after being told to marry. But the fact remains Mina is the one Heinrich partner Fritz was positively enthusiastic about ("We can congratulate ourselves to this acquisition" - again to Wilhelmine), and would not allow Heinrich to leave, as opposed to the various boyfriends.

Re: Agony Aunts (and Uncles)

[mildred_of_midgard]

Well, I have to say, matchmaking judgment aside, Fritz's taste was impeccable when it comes to preferring Mina over any of Heinrich's favorites!

(Of course, in no universe do I believe that Fritz would have approved of a good marriage for Schmeling or Barbarina and only objected on the grounds that their intendeds were good-for-nothings.)

FW2: Agony-Inducing Uncle Fritz also arranged both my marriages.

Fritz: But I never said they would do you good. That was never the point.

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