But it does add some texture to his repeated protests in 1772 that Christian did not appear mad to him, and his readiness to believe the worst of poor CM and Struensee.
Yeah, at one point after Christian's become so erratic that Struensee has withdrawn him to a country house, the people get really upset that they never get to see their monarch. A bunch of them finally stage a march out there and demand to see the king, to assure themselves that he's still alive and not being poisoned. It is eerily like the Womens' March on Versailles, culminating in Marie Antoinette and Louis getting moved to Paris. I got goosebumps, thinking I knew how this was going to end, namely in Struensee's fall.
But insted, they came in the palace, met Christian, and went, "...Huh, he seems really normal and somewhat charming. In short, not at all what we expected based on all the rumors. Okay, guess you can't believe everything you hear." The situation was defused...for now.
Anyway, I think that's the context for Lehndorff having a positive first impression of Christian. Honestly, even if I think of some of the most similar members of my family, my grandmother and my sister, you have to actually know them for a while before you start seeing the weird behaviors.
Incidentally, shame Andrew Mitchell had died the previous year (1771), because going by his sceptical reaction when stories about Peter III. having been the worst to justify the coup started to arrive, he might have shown similar scepticism about the "Juliana and the other nobles saved Christian and Denmark from evil Struensee and Messalina!CM" version, and he was one of the people Lehndorff listened to with great respect.
Ooh, I had forgotten that. Yes, that would have been interesting!
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Re: Fritz is not your dream boss: The Bad Pyrmont edition
Date: 2023-02-26 04:38 pm (UTC)Yeah, at one point after Christian's become so erratic that Struensee has withdrawn him to a country house, the people get really upset that they never get to see their monarch. A bunch of them finally stage a march out there and demand to see the king, to assure themselves that he's still alive and not being poisoned. It is eerily like the Womens' March on Versailles, culminating in Marie Antoinette and Louis getting moved to Paris. I got goosebumps, thinking I knew how this was going to end, namely in Struensee's fall.
But insted, they came in the palace, met Christian, and went, "...Huh, he seems really normal and somewhat charming. In short, not at all what we expected based on all the rumors. Okay, guess you can't believe everything you hear." The situation was defused...for now.
Anyway, I think that's the context for Lehndorff having a positive first impression of Christian. Honestly, even if I think of some of the most similar members of my family, my grandmother and my sister, you have to actually know them for a while before you start seeing the weird behaviors.
Incidentally, shame Andrew Mitchell had died the previous year (1771), because going by his sceptical reaction when stories about Peter III. having been the worst to justify the coup started to arrive, he might have shown similar scepticism about the "Juliana and the other nobles saved Christian and Denmark from evil Struensee and Messalina!CM" version, and he was one of the people Lehndorff listened to with great respect.
Ooh, I had forgotten that. Yes, that would have been interesting!