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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Bregentved

[mildred_of_midgard]

Random fact of the day: Remember when Frederik V becomes king and gives his Moltke an estate at Bregentved, and turns it into a county so Moltke is now Count Moltke?

Guess who owned Bregentved before it came into royal hands? Løvenørn, our Danish envoy who's supposed to have warned Katte that he should escape, and who got recalled in 1730 when Frederik V's father (Christian VI) became king and saved his envoy from a furious FW.

This is the second time there's been overlap between the estates of our Prussian and Danish fandoms; the first time being when Sorgenfri Slot was built at the same time Manteufful was envoy in Denmark, which inspired his Kummerfrey estate, which may have inspired the name Sanssouci.