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: How not to raise a child: the Ferdinand of Parma edition

[mildred_of_midgard]

is somewhat irritated because "she owed her current happiness" (i.e. being future Queen of Prussia, Mrs. FW2) to him, Heinrich.

Ah, right, I'd forgotten about that too. There is too much to remember!

At any event, as I said in a former discussion: the moral is don't read other people's letters, Heinrich!

Hee!

If instead even the suspicion of someone having an affair with her means depending on your social station, you end up in a poverty ridden backwater and/or as a prison guard, I dare say there won't be many volunteers.

Very convincing conclusions. Though now I'm suspecting that MT and ML end up butting heads on a lot of issues in this AU.