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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2023-03-01 03:29 pm (UTC)

Re: Danish kings and their favorites: Frederik V and Moltke

Same here. Now I'm actually surprised that Christian didn't treat him worse. Bearing in mind how FW3 treated poor Wilhelmine Encke, Countess of Lichtenau, when FW2 whose favourite mistress she was had died. ([personal profile] cahn, stripped her of her possessions, put her on trial on trumped up charges and had her banished to Glogau in Silesia (yes, where Barbaria and husband also lived for a while years earlier), where she charmed and married a pal of E.T.A. Hoffmann's. She did manage to get some of her possessions back later when Napoleon had beaten Prussia, because L'Empereur decided she was innocent.) You'd think with that much bad blood and the capacity for malice he showed towards CM later, at least a banishment/exile would have happened. Does the book say why not?

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