18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 37

[cahn]

More diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!

January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

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Re: Anne and Philippe

[mildred_of_midgard]

Part of me is like "yes, please, deny it!" because this seems to be a good way of getting more delicious gossip :D

Lol, I had the exact same thought! "Quick, someone deny it!"

But... from what I know about Philippe, really, this seems like the sort of thing where no matter what Anne did Philippe was going to turn out SRSLY GAY, so it seems like Occam's razor to postulate she didn't do much :

I was also thinking this, namely that no matter what Anne did, if Philippe hadn't already been inclined that way...I don't think he would have been so enthusiastic about swimming upstream against societal expectations.