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: Fritz of Hervey

[selenak]

Honestly, I suspect Lucy Worsley was confusing him - Frederick the Bishop that is - with either his son the scissors wielding Victorian, who has after all the same name and title, or with his oldest brother George, who does come across as boring in all I’ve read so far.

I hadn’t really remembered from Horowski before looking it up, either, it was more something that tugged on my mind ever since Erskine’s introduction to Augustus’ diary mentioned Frederick was the globetrotting Lord Bristol whom all the Bristol hotels in Europe are named after. Because Horowksi only refers to him as Frederick Hervey when he introduces the guy, and in all the passages afterwards as Lord Bristol, and so I didn’t connect him with his father until this reread.