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: Peter's memoirs - Return to Prussia

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ha, I was wondering if it was still so present for him that he inadvertently switched tenses!

So was I! Then I double checked, and sure enough, it's yet another sign that this is not a professional-grade transcription and translation. (That would take another year, and if I'm doing anything professional-grade--which I haven't committed to--it would be the letters to Fredersdorf.)

I guess that letter really is lost forever.

If it survives, it's not showing up in any catalogues I've found. I'd expect it to be in the Prussian archives with the other letters to Fritz 1745-1750, and it's not there, so...I'm guessing lost, yeah.

By the way, do we know why he stopped in 1747?

The memoirs were written in 1751 or 1752 (of course there's a contradiction, but I'm leaning toward 1752 being the more reliable-looking number), so I just assume becoming curator in 1747 was the last major event worth reporting. The memoirs are only 8 pages long, and Peter's really only hitting the high points. I can't think of any major life events that happened between 1747 and 1752, though of course I would have loved his take on the 1750 surprise gift from Fritz to Peter via his mother-in-law, but alas.

Re: Peter's memoirs - Return to Prussia

[mildred_of_midgard]

ETA: Looking more closely, I think it says they were written in 1752, and cover his life up to 1751 "jusqu'à l'annee 1751". So unless he covered more events in the subsequent draft that Formey got and which we don't have, I think my original idea is correct, that there just wasn't anything super noteworthy between 1748 and 1751.