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: Roundtables and royal monologues

[mildred_of_midgard]

Looks like Springer's escape was in 1747 and Ulrike's husband Adolf Fredrik didn't become king until 1751, so this would be Fredrik I, originally of Hesse-Kessel and brother-in-law to Karl XII. (We've spent so long in salon and covered so many Fredericks and Charleses that I'm having to diversify the spellings as much as possible.)