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: Königsmark, by A E W Mason

[cahn]

and given my osmosis from salon, I had to buy it.

This is awesome! (I will never get over my -- knowing less about history than the average bear -- DW being a repository of historical knowledge!)
Also I find Philip von Königsmark/Sophia Dorothea of Celle an interesting ship :)

Philip is murdered by Clara along with some henchmen, and the future G1 hardly comes into it.

Although I must say this is a plot twist I was not expecting!

There's a moment where I thought Philip was going to be bricked up alive behind a fireplace!

haha, wow, that would have been something!

The book ends with a future G2 visiting Sophia Dorothea in her prison castle

Well, anyway, I see what you mean by the author liking tragic romance :P Thank you for writing this up!

Re: Königsmark, by A E W Mason

[mildred_of_midgard]

Philip is murdered by Clara along with some henchmen, and the future G1 hardly comes into it.

Although I must say this is a plot twist I was not expecting!

I was going to say, the second part, future G1 hardly coming into it, seems to be historically accurate. He was in Berlin at the time and may have only found out weeks later. (Unless that was a well-planned alibi, but there's no evidence of it.)

(Yes, I know there's a new post, but I'm just tying up loose ends here. New substantative replies will be on the post about the family "the Great". :D)