Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 41

[cahn]

Now, thanks to interesting podcasts, including characters from German history as a whole and also Byzantine history! (More on this later.)

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Re: Detour about royals and public eating (and touching)

[selenak]

it was not something the Georges did.

Wouldn't be surprised, I don't recall this being a German tradition at all, but Caroline as Princess of Wales made some considerable effort to come across as publically approachable to the Brits by regularly promenading with her children and future G2 in the London parks, by attending festivities where they danced English country dances (which she made future G2 learn), attending church services instead of sticking to royal chapels etc. Of course, all those public strolls by the Prince and Princess of Wales with their children (well, those children they were allowed to bring to England anyway) was also a demonstration that the new regime had a secured dynastic future, in contrast to the last few Stuarts like poor Anne with her dead babies. Plus whatever Caroline and future G2 had done in the South would not have mattered to the people in Edinburgh who never saw them.