Posted on 11/06/2021 6:42:32 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1730, Prussia’s greatest king watched his boyhood lover put to death at his father’s order.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Most of those ways were explored at some point by a Hohenzollern.
The 18-year-old prince Frederick had a thoroughly frosty relationship with the old man. Surly Frederick William I — “the soldier king” — didn’t have much use for his sensitive, music-loving son. An “effeminate fool,” dad thought the boy, and did not scruple to beat him publicly as he forcibly molded the unwilling heir into a military man.
Now, blue bloods have often had rocky relationships with their sires, but running away is not the usual option for a prince of the realm.
But Frederick contrived to hit the bricks, and 26-year-old officer Hans Hermann von Katte had the bad luck to be his best friend (and presumed homosexual lover). When Frederick turned to him for help, they started plotting flight...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Wow, what a story. O.o Poor Fritz.
Nice Quote from Anna Karenina! :-)
Why do you they called them Junkers?
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