Well, Lehndorff found him hot and charming, so clearly Christian must have had some attractions. Then again, that was when he was young and travelling, which he wouldn't have been in time for John Brown, though I note that wiki entry doesn't give us a birth date.
True, though Christian was only 19 when Lehndorff met him, which means he could have still had some attractions 20 years later, at least enough to inspire pity. And Fritz was neither young nor attractive when Zimmermann developed his crush! But more seriously, yeah, I think Brown is going on stories that arose in Denmark during Christian's reign but predate Brown's time there.
This kind of talk strikes me as basically the equivalent of the Hogarth drawings when it comes to caricaturing the Hannovers.
Oh, god, yes. Exactly.
However, thsese books were clearly marked as fiction, and Brown is marketing this as history
Yeah, I'm familiar with the conceit of documents in fiction (even Tolkien did it!), and marketing your history as letters that you totally sent when the events were happening, but this was more of a fake documents I allegedly found on the continent but am not even making an effort to make them look historical.
What I do think is that he had a hate-on, which works almost as well.
Yeah, the SDC/G1 take clearly smacks of his tendency for hate-ons.
In conclusion: my money is on John Brown writing this as political propaganda, only to discover it doesn't make his name nor does he win sponsors this way.
Re: Mirror mirror on the wall: Who's the evilest of them all?
True, though Christian was only 19 when Lehndorff met him, which means he could have still had some attractions 20 years later, at least enough to inspire pity. And Fritz was neither young nor attractive when Zimmermann developed his crush! But more seriously, yeah, I think Brown is going on stories that arose in Denmark during Christian's reign but predate Brown's time there.
This kind of talk strikes me as basically the equivalent of the Hogarth drawings when it comes to caricaturing the Hannovers.
Oh, god, yes. Exactly.
However, thsese books were clearly marked as fiction, and Brown is marketing this as history
Yeah, I'm familiar with the conceit of documents in fiction (even Tolkien did it!), and marketing your history as letters that you totally sent when the events were happening, but this was more of a fake documents I allegedly found on the continent but am not even making an effort to make them look historical.
What I do think is that he had a hate-on, which works almost as well.
Yeah, the SDC/G1 take clearly smacks of his tendency for hate-ons.
In conclusion: my money is on John Brown writing this as political propaganda, only to discover it doesn't make his name nor does he win sponsors this way.
Interesting, could be!