Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 45

[cahn]

Unfortunately, there was then at Berlin a King who pursued one policy only, who deceived his enemies, but not his servants, and who lied without scruple, but never without necessity.

(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )

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Re: 18th Century Westeros

[mildred_of_midgard]

I know you’ve cast the Stuarts as Targaeryns, but all the inbreeding signals Habsburg, too.

True, but the particular type of inbreeding says Egypt to me, though, with the deliberate brother-sister incest to keep the line pure, as opposed to the repeated political marriages of cousins and uncle/niece, aunt/nephew that hit the Hapsburgs over repeated generations.

Robert Baratheon works for BPC, ironically - short peak period of being a charismatic beloved rebel leader, followed by decades of drunken self loathing indulgence and misery with mistress and wife alike.

Ha! Very true.

I still want to know whether you think Fritz, as the head of one of the lesser Houses or a younger son of a big one, would have made a play for the Iron Throne? Or would he have been content to invade, conquer and keep a rich province?

Alas for your question, it's been too long since I read the books to be able to give a meaningful answer based on the specific power politics of this world.