EAN: 9783962580476

THE KINGS LOVE - SIBYLLE PRINZESSIN VON PREUSSEN...

A brisk and insightful biography of Frederick the Great written by two of his royal descendants
Princess Sibylle and Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia. Deemphasizing the king's political
and military achievements while highlighting his personal relationships  interests  and even
quirks  this book gives us Frederick as full-blooded Mensch rather than as Olympian monarch.
His tortured relationship with his martinet father  the soldier king  his extraordinary
devotion to his dogs  eclipsing even his love for significant humans  his passion for reading
and for the ideals of Enlightenment philosophy as guiding forces in government  the seemingly
ceaseless tide of grief he had to endure over the rapid succession of deaths of those closest
to him  even his less than fastidious table manners in cutting up bits of meat on the
tablecloth for his nearby dogs-these and many other facets of a charismatic personality make
this a volume that is for history buffs virtually unputdownable.

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