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: Royal Reading Schedule and other things

[cahn]

I also don't think I knew that Anton Ulrich was, if not exactly the last one to find out that the reason he was in Russia was to marry the potential heir/mother of the heir to the throne, at least not especially clear or focused on this fact from the beginning.

Huh. That sounds... well, I suppose it's less surprising that he came to a bad end, with that kind of political savvy.