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

[selenak]

Tsk. If you had read the Elizabeth Tudor/Philip of Spain AU I linked to you some months ago, you'd have come across it. In that story, Elizabeth has to do it with the Duke of Alba as proxy for Philip, which is modelled on rl Elisabeth de Valois's marriage where Alba was also Philip's stand-in who had to to the leg-to-leg touching when the marriage took place in France.

Re: Pompadour gossip

[cahn]

Argh, I did read it! And liked it! Idk why the leg-to-leg touching didn't stay with me. I did remember the Duke of Alba showing up, maybe I was too busy thinking about that?? Hmph.