Eichel: Seeing as I famously had no social life, I guess I don't count as a member of FW's social circle.
Didn't you or felis find that he actually had a social life, he just wasn't accessible to envoys who wanted to bribe him, so they said he was kept locked up and impossible to contact?
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*
I don't know about staff, but Wartensleben made the list, and he was famously one of the few people who managed to be in both Fritz's and FW's good graces in the late 1730s. If you're right that he was in Manteuffel's pay, this makes perfect sense: he had every incentive to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds and not show what he was really thinking.
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.
OFF: Only Friend Forever!
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.
Hee, I was thinking of this when I saw OD's name!
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...
Ha! We were thinking along similar lines! Because I didn't think he was the author, but my first thought was whatever source this goes back to was probably following Christian's version of events very closely. If he was king at the time, that makes sense.
If so, it makes perfect, and sad, sense that he had some good memories of his father. With Frederik's Dr. Jenkins and Mr. Hyde personality, he must have hugged and praised his kid at least once in a blue moon. And like Moltke, Christian grew up telling himself that Nice Frederik was the real Frederik, and Abusive, Neglectful Frederik had some explanation that wasn't "My father has a drinking problem and anger management issues going back to his unhappy childhood." It must be the evil stepmother and evil advisors!
Re: Holdovers of the previous regime speak out
Didn't you or felis find that he actually had a social life, he just wasn't accessible to envoys who wanted to bribe him, so they said he was kept locked up and impossible to contact?
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*
I don't know about staff, but Wartensleben made the list, and he was famously one of the few people who managed to be in both Fritz's and FW's good graces in the late 1730s. If you're right that he was in Manteuffel's pay, this makes perfect sense: he had every incentive to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds and not show what he was really thinking.
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.
OFF: Only Friend Forever!
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.
Hee, I was thinking of this when I saw OD's name!
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...
Ha! We were thinking along similar lines! Because I didn't think he was the author, but my first thought was whatever source this goes back to was probably following Christian's version of events very closely. If he was king at the time, that makes sense.
If so, it makes perfect, and sad, sense that he had some good memories of his father. With Frederik's Dr. Jenkins and Mr. Hyde personality, he must have hugged and praised his kid at least once in a blue moon. And like Moltke, Christian grew up telling himself that Nice Frederik was the real Frederik, and Abusive, Neglectful Frederik had some explanation that wasn't "My father has a drinking problem and anger management issues going back to his unhappy childhood." It must be the evil stepmother and evil advisors!