You can always rely on Lehndorff (if he's around) for those things. (Just not for positive details about the Katte family. *g*)
I almost concluded that write-up with these exact same two sentences! *g*
Still, something like this embassy would have been incredibly "exotic" for 1763, especially coming hard on the heels of the Seven Years War with attendant austerity.
Yeah, individual Turks and an embassy being officially received with pomp and circumstance are two very different things!
Pöllnitz: Why do people think I changed my religion a couple of times? I was trying to figure out the right way to pray for a miracle!
Lol, Selena! I actually laughed out loud.
Re: Fritz giving in, since we're still in 1763, Fritz is undoubtedly aware he's pissed people off/disappointed them by skipping the public victory celebrations and making the Berliners wait in vain for him earlier that year
Ah, yes, good point.
He addresses the king as "Emperor"
Good thing MT wasn't there, she might have rethought partitioning the Ottoman Empire?
Hahaha. Where are her spies, though??? (More seriously, that was 5-10 years later, so it's doubtful if even the same people are in charge.) But yes, she would not have been amused!
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Re: 1764-1772 Foreign policy: Prussia: Lehndorff
Date: 2024-01-15 06:00 pm (UTC)I almost concluded that write-up with these exact same two sentences! *g*
Still, something like this embassy would have been incredibly "exotic" for 1763, especially coming hard on the heels of the Seven Years War with attendant austerity.
Yeah, individual Turks and an embassy being officially received with pomp and circumstance are two very different things!
Pöllnitz: Why do people think I changed my religion a couple of times? I was trying to figure out the right way to pray for a miracle!
Lol, Selena! I actually laughed out loud.
Re: Fritz giving in, since we're still in 1763, Fritz is undoubtedly aware he's pissed people off/disappointed them by skipping the public victory celebrations and making the Berliners wait in vain for him earlier that year
Ah, yes, good point.
He addresses the king as "Emperor"
Good thing MT wasn't there, she might have rethought partitioning the Ottoman Empire?
Hahaha. Where are her spies, though??? (More seriously, that was 5-10 years later, so it's doubtful if even the same people are in charge.) But yes, she would not have been amused!