18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 36

[cahn]

Starting a couple of comments earlier than usual to mention there are a couple of new salon fics! These probably both need canon knowledge.

felis ficlets on siblings!

Siblings (541 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758), Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Summary:

Three Fills for the 2022 Three Sentence Ficathon.

Chapter One: Protective Action / Babysitting at Rheinsberg (Frederick/Fredersdorf, William+Henry+Ferdinand)
Chapter Two: Here Be Lions (Wilhelmine)

Unsent Letters fic by me:

Letters for a Dead King (1981 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802)
Characters: Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Love/Hate, Talking To Dead People, Canonical Character Death, Dysfunctional Family
Summary:

Just because one's king and brother is dead doesn't mean one has to stop writing to him.

Comments

Re: Lehndorff

[mildred_of_midgard]

Fritz: At this point it should be glaringly obvious why I left this delusional young man with my wife and never gave him a position anywhere near me.

LOL!

Hang on, though, given that the "Kings of Prussia" as of 1752 consist of a grand total of 3

Well, given that he said "kings and princes," and given that he talked about it as this historical artifact and compared its value to a hypothetical bed that Cleopatra or Livia slept in, I was assuming it was at *least* as old as F1. Maybe older. The Great Elector counts as a prince!

As for Fritz, I was wondering if he and EC had slept in it. Their first lying-together would have been in Brunswick, but maybe there was a separate ritual once they got back to Berlin. (Would this have been witnessed like a French royal marriage?)

And given the timing, February 1753, and the fact that Lehndorff says "princes," I wouldn't be surprised if Fritz made Heinrich and Mina lie next to each other in June 1752, and then sold it off. Ferdinand who? :P

ETA: on rereading the passage, the bed has to be pretty old, as Lehndorff refers to it as a Denkmäler and says it's a witness to "the luxury and tastes of our ancestors." So F1 at least. No one ever accused FW of luxury!

Re: Lehndorff

[selenak]

And given the timing, February 1753, and the fact that Lehndorff says "princes," I wouldn't be surprised if Fritz made Heinrich and Mina lie next to each other in June 1752, and then sold it off. Ferdinand who? :

Headcanon accepted. This would definitely have been a Fritz thing to do.