Do you think he would have gone for Windsor specifically (afaik, G2 didn't), or was that just something you picked because it would be familiar to modern readers?
Mostly for the name recognition factor. But I do think Windsor would tempt FW as a residence. It's a former fortress, and as opposed to, say, Greenwich or Richmond closer to the heart of the government action in London. Also, given that the late Queen much prefered it to Buckingham Palace, I guess it might have been easier to live in in the 18th century as well.
(Kew isn't an option yet, because it was G3 who really rebuild that as the classic Georgian residence.)
Why not Hampton Court: way too big and decorative for FW's taste!
I still say MT kicks their butts, though. :P The Saxon army and treasury (and personalities) in AU!1740 were not the Prussian army and treasury and personalities of RL!1740.
Same here! I like you, Saxons, but you don't compare.
Re: the Peter III and Fritz thing, that's why I never would have picked that example on my own and went for same generation monarchs instead who could have swapped at the start of their reigns. If Fritz has already been monarch of Prussia for decades, it's another issue. So I assumed a clean slate.
Like I said, a lot depends on the details: if it's *just* Fritz and Peter who swap, how does the Catherine/Fritz marriage go? Is Fritz finally tested on whether his belief that a woman should be able to cheat if the husband neglects her applies to his wife too?
He would be, and I am not sure he would pass that test. I also suspect he might change the Russian inheritance laws that allow women to become the ruling monarch, because it would have occured to Fritz, if he was married to Catherine, that his wife had the brains, the ruthlessness and the ambition to try something, with the example of several female rulers and several coups in the decades earlier.
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Do you think he would have gone for Windsor specifically (afaik, G2 didn't), or was that just something you picked because it would be familiar to modern readers?
Mostly for the name recognition factor. But I do think Windsor would tempt FW as a residence. It's a former fortress, and as opposed to, say, Greenwich or Richmond closer to the heart of the government action in London. Also, given that the late Queen much prefered it to Buckingham Palace, I guess it might have been easier to live in in the 18th century as well.
(Kew isn't an option yet, because it was G3 who really rebuild that as the classic Georgian residence.)
Why not Hampton Court: way too big and decorative for FW's taste!
I still say MT kicks their butts, though. :P The Saxon army and treasury (and personalities) in AU!1740 were not the Prussian army and treasury and personalities of RL!1740.
Same here! I like you, Saxons, but you don't compare.
Re: the Peter III and Fritz thing, that's why I never would have picked that example on my own and went for same generation monarchs instead who could have swapped at the start of their reigns. If Fritz has already been monarch of Prussia for decades, it's another issue. So I assumed a clean slate.
Like I said, a lot depends on the details: if it's *just* Fritz and Peter who swap, how does the Catherine/Fritz marriage go? Is Fritz finally tested on whether his belief that a woman should be able to cheat if the husband neglects her applies to his wife too?
He would be, and I am not sure he would pass that test. I also suspect he might change the Russian inheritance laws that allow women to become the ruling monarch, because it would have occured to Fritz, if he was married to Catherine, that his wife had the brains, the ruthlessness and the ambition to try something, with the example of several female rulers and several coups in the decades earlier.