Now what I want to know is: where, at this point, is this story coming from? I mean, since it's untrue, there must have been a specific point of origin
I read somewhere recently that it came from Fritz and Katte, but one, I don't remember where (I did a survey of every book on Fritz on the UCLA library shelves 3 weeks ago), two, it sounded like speculation. But like you, I think it makes sense.
where she gives credit to the heroic lady in waiting standing up to FW instead.
And she's not the only account to give credit to the lady in waiting.
BTW, it's also sad and telling about the time that bad treatment by FW WITHOUT any pressure to convert is evidently not thought a good enough reason for Fritz to flee by the Brits.
Or Katte, apparently! Well, admittedly Katte was being asked to get involved himself, but still. The thread of Catholicism is apparently what pushed him over the edge!
And then, once Silesia 1 had started, he'd have drummed up a charge to arrest him as an Austrian spy. I know whereof I speak!
Lol!
Me neither. Why I do wonder whether it wasn't: "Fuck you, Cousin, if I don't get to kill my son Fritz, I don't see why you should get to kill yours!"
Hahaha, omg. If I weren't so busy, I'd be tempted to see if I could track this down. I've put it on my Trello todo list. Maybe it'll get done.
The famous Chesterfield quote is great, but you'd think that FW's obsession around the doctrine of Predestination would have clued the Brits in to the fact that this wasn't a guy taking his religion lightly.
Yeah, but notice this comes from Chesterfield, who also thinks it's absurd that anyone believes that FW would beat his son into converting to Catholicism. It's Egmont who thinks that, and we have no evidence that he knew about the predestination thing!
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Re: 1730 in British rumors: Chesterfield
Date: 2024-11-21 12:08 am (UTC)I read somewhere recently that it came from Fritz and Katte, but one, I don't remember where (I did a survey of every book on Fritz on the UCLA library shelves 3 weeks ago), two, it sounded like speculation. But like you, I think it makes sense.
where she gives credit to the heroic lady in waiting standing up to FW instead.
And she's not the only account to give credit to the lady in waiting.
BTW, it's also sad and telling about the time that bad treatment by FW WITHOUT any pressure to convert is evidently not thought a good enough reason for Fritz to flee by the Brits.
Or Katte, apparently! Well, admittedly Katte was being asked to get involved himself, but still. The thread of Catholicism is apparently what pushed him over the edge!
And then, once Silesia 1 had started, he'd have drummed up a charge to arrest him as an Austrian spy. I know whereof I speak!
Lol!
Me neither. Why I do wonder whether it wasn't: "Fuck you, Cousin, if I don't get to kill my son Fritz, I don't see why you should get to kill yours!"
Hahaha, omg. If I weren't so busy, I'd be tempted to see if I could track this down. I've put it on my Trello todo list. Maybe it'll get done.
The famous Chesterfield quote is great, but you'd think that FW's obsession around the doctrine of Predestination would have clued the Brits in to the fact that this wasn't a guy taking his religion lightly.
Yeah, but notice this comes from Chesterfield, who also thinks it's absurd that anyone believes that FW would beat his son into converting to Catholicism. It's Egmont who thinks that, and we have no evidence that he knew about the predestination thing!