Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: Nancy Goldstone has nothing on this one...

[selenak]

To be fair: he's in the proud tradition of the Hohenzollern RomCom about Wilhelmine and BayreuthFriedrich here. (Where all the younger sibs are in the wrong age and the wrong gender. This despite the fact they don't have any lines, and it wouldn't have cost anything for them to be the right gender and the right age.)