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: Hunting Peter Keith: Meinerzhagen, August 22

[selenak]

Palairet (who, as I am informed, supplies wine to the Earl of Chesterfield, and has a brother in England who teaches the Duke of Cumberland how to write)

The Duke of Cumberland being Fritz of Wales' kid brother, the one Caroline and G2 want to become the next King, cahn, and fifteen years into the future the dread nemesis of Bonnie Prince Charlie and responsible for lots of dead Scots.

Most interesting to me here: Peter speaking Plattdeutsch! He's been stationed in Wesel for all of six months, and I see his linguistic talents are already showing. :D
Edited Date: 2024-06-24 08:25 pm (UTC)

Indeed they are! I bet Fritz would not have picked up a single word, since he'd have made everyone speak French with him.

(To be fair: I don't speak Plattdeutsch, either. Whenever I hear it, it feels like Dutch or Swiss German, in that it's possible to get the gist of what's being said if people talk slow, but it's really a different language.)

Re: Hunting Peter Keith: Meinerzhagen, August 22

[mildred_of_midgard]

The Duke of Cumberland being Fritz of Wales' kid brother, the one Caroline and G2 want to become the next King, [personal profile] cahn, and fifteen years into the future the dread nemesis of Bonnie Prince Charlie and responsible for lots of dead Scots.

Also known as "Butcher Billy", Cahn.

I saw that, and I was like, "Small world!"

Indeed they are! I bet Fritz would not have picked up a single word, since he'd have made everyone speak French with him.

Agreed. It is cool to see Peter picking up a new language/dialect beyond the ones we knew about from his eulogy and then his memoirs.