Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 42

[cahn]

Last post, we had (among other things) Danish kings and their favorites; Louis XIV and Philippe d'Orléans; reviews of a very shippy book about Katte, a bad Jacobite novel, and a great book about clothing; a fic about Émilie du Châtelet and Voltaire; and a review of a set of entertaining Youtube history videos about Frederick the Great.

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Re: Catching up to the last post

[cahn]

If he didn't do it after that letter at their Dresden reunion, he just wouldn't.

Ha. So, what about the AU where he did it then...? :)

It has to be said that the Brits aren't the only case where the (surviving) monarchies had to reinvent themselves as embodying admirable middle class virtues in family life and marital fidelity.

Ha! I didn't actually think so, but the British monarchs are the ones I know more about :)

And as long as the children were children and no one knew more about them than the first family daguerotypes getting into print, it really must have looked like they were a family right of the end (not the beginning!) of a Dickens novel.

Lol, I like your way with words! :D

But I dare say even before Henry VIII started to make everyone pay for his lack of a legitimate son, nobody would have looked at him, or expected him to be, a role model in terms of marital fidelity or family life.

This picture is just making me laugh.

Our car with the good audio finally got fixed so I am hoping to be able to retain a bit more from the podcast! But we'll see about that too -- sometimes I get really distracted. I should probably take Mildred's partner's advice and do it while crocheting (which makes it easier for me to hold my attention), but I just don't have the time right now.