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: FS in three biographies: An Overview (1)

[mildred_of_midgard]

I just ordered it.

Excellent!

But I am very curious about the original source for the "Wilhelmine told Cobenzl Fritz was totally willing to be HRH, complete with conversion" claim.

As am I!

where Fritz is Henry the Quarrelsome - and wouldn't he be called Fritz the Quarrelsome? - and MT is Theophanu or Adelheid. Or hey, why not go earlier than that and put Fritz in the Charlemagne position and MT isn the Irene (Empress of Byzantium) position? (Not that their personalities match, in either case, but job wise.)

Hee! One thing that does match is the existence of all the "what if Charlemagne and Irene had married?" AUs!

It's also gorgeous, I've been there, and was a favourite residence of Catherine de' Medici, see this old post of mine. Lucky Stanislas Lescynski, if he got to live there, because:

And lucky you, who got to visit there!