I apologise to FW most heartily! I also note that we are entering the period of three given names, so possibly Elisabeth Christine manages to get a Sophia Wilhelmine Elisabeth, or Sophia Wilhelmine Antoinette, in there. And this, of course, adds additional options for little baby Friedrich Karl Emil.
Given FW's...FW, possibly he starts off by sparing the rants, then goes to "what if I create him my heir? What THEN?" and then dies before he can change the succession, and submit Prussia to the rule of an infant who cannot yet consume solid food. (For added irony, possibly FKE either dies before Fritz, or survives him only a little, so rule by infant or toddler is only put off for a generation.)
I shall post it, along with the many options for who FKE can marry! (With a tossup on if Sophia etc makes the best marriage Fritz can arrange for her, or never marries at all and has a romance with her sister-in-law a la Mimi and Isabella of Parma.)
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Re: Counterfactuals...
Date: 2025-06-02 02:23 pm (UTC)Given FW's...FW, possibly he starts off by sparing the rants, then goes to "what if I create him my heir? What THEN?" and then dies before he can change the succession, and submit Prussia to the rule of an infant who cannot yet consume solid food. (For added irony, possibly FKE either dies before Fritz, or survives him only a little, so rule by infant or toddler is only put off for a generation.)
I shall post it, along with the many options for who FKE can marry! (With a tossup on if Sophia etc makes the best marriage Fritz can arrange for her, or never marries at all and has a romance with her sister-in-law a la Mimi and Isabella of Parma.)