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: Pompadour gossip

[mildred_of_midgard]

Henry VIII: That story was always one that stuck with me, not because of anything it said about Henry or Anne, but because it was what made young, just-starting-to-study-history, me realize that in the pre-photograph and -television days, a celebrity, even a monarch, had a chance of actually going incognito!

And that made me realize that portraits, including coins, were all most people would ever see of their monarch, and so it actually mattered what you put on them. And that meant you had a chance to spin your depiction various ways. To create an image, literally.

LOL about incognito kings and their inability to maintain their cover when it comes to Louis XV and Fritz, though.

ViennaJoe: Everyone knew who I was, that was the point. I enjoyed Catherine having her Hanoverian gardener roleplay an innkeeper for me, though, for the authentic German inn experience even in Russia!

That was the time we spent together which ended in my apartment with the phosphor inscription on my wallpaper. We were ever so discreet!

Inscribing your love on your wallpaper is very discreet, Lehndorff. Good job. *pats head*