he is caught by the Hats, who make her sign a public "I won't do it again" apology letter, which she finds very humiliating.
As we remember from Ziebura's AW biography and my write-up of same. She was throwing Cromwell comparisons around, and he was going WTF, calm down at her. There are also Ulrike letters from during the war in the spirit of "if Fritz had backed me up against my unruly subjects when I needed him, Sweden would now not be at war with him", I think.
LOL on the social war, which I did not know about. It's worth requoting Lehndorff's description of Ulrike during her lengthy visit to Brandenburg:
I have rarely met a woman with more knowledge and more wit. But alas, these brilliant qualities only bring her misfortune. For she has not learned to make her life agreeable to herself, as she could in her high position. On the contrary, this position contributes to making her unhappy. She knows no higher happiness than despotic rule while living in a country where the very phrase is a crime. In religious matters, she's a free thinker while the higher clergy of Sweden clutches to the letter of the bible. She openly admits to not being able to disguise herself, and since she does not love Sweden, she uses the most terrible phrases for this country. She is a deist, scorns priests and praises despotism, all of which in mockery of her Swedish entourage, who of course hasten to report all of this back home. She is arrogant, though she is kind on a personal level, as long as she doesn't believe one is lacking in the proper respect towards her. And the later is true for the entire diplomatic corps in Berlin in her eyes. (...) A for me, I lunch with her daily and I have to say, she's incredibly amiable on these occasions. But it does annoy people she rarely talks to women. She does treat her ladies rather haughtily. When the poor Countess Sinclair wanted to sit down opposite of her a few days ago, her majesty told her: "My dear, you are my daily bread, sit elsehwere."
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Re: 1764-1772 Foreign policy: Sweden: The Hats and Caps, an eternal merry-go-round
Date: 2024-01-17 08:15 am (UTC)As we remember from Ziebura's AW biography and my write-up of same. She was throwing Cromwell comparisons around, and he was going WTF, calm down at her. There are also Ulrike letters from during the war in the spirit of "if Fritz had backed me up against my unruly subjects when I needed him, Sweden would now not be at war with him", I think.
LOL on the social war, which I did not know about. It's worth requoting Lehndorff's description of Ulrike during her lengthy visit to Brandenburg:
I have rarely met a woman with more knowledge and more wit. But alas, these brilliant qualities only bring her misfortune. For she has not learned to make her life agreeable to herself, as she could in her high position. On the contrary, this position contributes to making her unhappy. She knows no higher happiness than despotic rule while living in a country where the very phrase is a crime. In religious matters, she's a free thinker while the higher clergy of Sweden clutches to the letter of the bible. She openly admits to not being able to disguise herself, and since she does not love Sweden, she uses the most terrible phrases for this country. She is a deist, scorns priests and praises despotism, all of which in mockery of her Swedish entourage, who of course hasten to report all of this back home. She is arrogant, though she is kind on a personal level, as long as she doesn't believe one is lacking in the proper respect towards her. And the later is true for the entire diplomatic corps in Berlin in her eyes. (...) A for me, I lunch with her daily and I have to say, she's incredibly amiable on these occasions. But it does annoy people she rarely talks to women. She does treat her ladies rather haughtily. When the poor Countess Sinclair wanted to sit down opposite of her a few days ago, her majesty told her: "My dear, you are my daily bread, sit elsehwere."