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) )

Comments

Re: James I and VI: Money and Favourites

[selenak]

(Now I'm imagining the AU in which Heinrich is king and Prussia has Gentlemen of the Bedchamber...)

I don't renember anymore at which point in his life Lehndorff did his history of the Stuarts reading (complete with commenting in his diary that they were a weird family so unlike our own dear Hohenzollern), but if it was later rather than earlier, I bet he mentally cast Kaphengst as Buckingham.

Also, given that apparantly being good looking didn't hurt your prospects for serving as Fritz' chamber hussar, either, there's no AU necessary, just a Glasow story. (Because the others didn't get important jobs other than guarding Fritz, but Glasow at least temporarily did.

Re: James I and VI: Money and Favourites

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yeah, Fritz also had an episode in his life titled "Trashy Faves and Poisons"! :D The shiny red Porsche of chamber hussars will never not be funny.