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: FW parenting

[mildred_of_midgard]

Fair! Didn't G2 say something like "In a father-son conflict, the father is always right!" re Fritz of Wales, and then belatedly remember his own conflict with his father, and then go, "But my father was being unreasonable, of course!"?

Regardless, even after FW figured out that Fritz *was* different, he thought it was disrespectful of Fritz to act differently: he said something like (paraphrased), "I know he doesn't think like me" and "If you love your father, you do exactly what he wants, not just when he's around, but all the time" (i.e. no sneaking out of bed to read, Fritz).