why *would* they have a good relationship with their abuser and his circle?
Eichel: Seeing as I famously had no social life, I guess I don't count as a member of FW's social circle. In any event, I wasn't the only member of FW's staff whom Fritz adopted, but I think I was the only one to make it on the list of six beloved people. *smug in a bureaucratic fashion*
Old Dessauer: I didn't, but I also didn't get fired, and I was FW's bff, of which I was life long proud.
Fredersdorf: Which is why the King and I were anything but sad when you kicked the bucket, as evidenced by our corrspondence. He did keep you in the army on account of your usefulness and legendary status, granted, but he hardly included you in his social circle.
Grumbkow: I luckily died in 1739, so I never found out how Junior would have treated me. I mean, I did try my best to cultivate him, and told Seckendorff the younger it was working, but then I wanted my Austrian pension to continue. Somehow, I suspect my fate might have resembled that of my buddy Seckendorff the elder...
One more think about the delicious insanity that are those excerpts you present: with all the insistence that Frederik V. loved Christian to bits and only started drinking because of Juliana, and that Christian got corrupted by Juliana, and how Christian is able to make pointed quips at Moltke, I would suspect Christian himself as the author if he hadn't died ten years earlier...
Holdovers of the previous regime speak out
Eichel: Seeing as I famously had no social life, I guess I don't count as a member of FW's social circle. In any event, I wasn't the only member of FW's staff whom Fritz adopted, but I think I was the only one to make it on the list of six beloved people. *smug in a bureaucratic fashion*
Old Dessauer: I didn't, but I also didn't get fired, and I was FW's bff, of which I was life long proud.
Fredersdorf: Which is why the King and I were anything but sad when you kicked the bucket, as evidenced by our corrspondence. He did keep you in the army on account of your usefulness and legendary status, granted, but he hardly included you in his social circle.
Grumbkow: I luckily died in 1739, so I never found out how Junior would have treated me. I mean, I did try my best to cultivate him, and told Seckendorff the younger it was working, but then I wanted my Austrian pension to continue. Somehow, I suspect my fate might have resembled that of my buddy Seckendorff the elder...
One more think about the delicious insanity that are those excerpts you present: with all the insistence that Frederik V. loved Christian to bits and only started drinking because of Juliana, and that Christian got corrupted by Juliana, and how Christian is able to make pointed quips at Moltke, I would suspect Christian himself as the author if he hadn't died ten years earlier...