Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 48

[cahn]

Some awesome historical RPF candyheartsex stories for meeeeee (or by me, in one tiny case) with historical characters! I'm just going to note whom the stories are about here. They are all so good!!

Anne Boleyn/Catherine of Aragorn
Frances Howard and Frances Coke (or: James I's court was basically a HOTBED of scandal, omg)

And two that are also historical RPF but also consistent with the Jude Morgan novel The King's Touch, which is an excellent historical novel narrated by James ("Jemmy") Scott, Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son.

Princess Henrietta of England (Charles II's sister and wife of Philippe I duc d'Orleans)
James of Monmouth/William/Mary

Comments

Re: Karl Ernst

[mildred_of_midgard]

Haha. She's not the only Auguste in the family tree! Speaking of more unusual names, I think I've mentioned Peter also had a sister named Ori(g)ana, which is also his wife's name (ETA: and her family is from East Frisia). Let's not forget that we have a Scottish family that settled in Pomerania, with Amalie's branch ending up in Silesia, none of which is Brandenburg.

But yes, I don't see any of those Habsburg names at a glance, at least in the later generations! (Peter has a (half?) brother named Franz, but EC had a brother named Franz as well, and that's all well before FS and MT became the dastardly foes of the Most Glorious King, trying to kidnap what he had rightfully stolen.)

Does Peter's short description of his life include how he won Oriane's hand, given how much married upwards?

It does not! I, as his biographer, naturally assume he was just *that* lovable. :P (Maybe Oriane, like Knobelsdorff, appreciated English directness. Honestly, I think her mother was probably the direct type, although I have no hard proof.)

ETA: Note, though, that she may have been socially well above him, but she was not an heiress, and she and her mother were counting on him to be the breadwinner. If Fritz *had* intervened, it probably would have been to marry Peter off to someone with more money.