Monday, August 17, 2020

Brandenburg Princesses--

Elisabeth Luise of Brandenburg-Schwedt
@Wikipedia
(1738-1820)

Also known as:
Margravine Anna Elisabeth Louise.

Wife ofAugust Ferdinand von Preussen, mar 1755

Her lover was:
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau. (1743-1806)

Also known as:
Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von Schmettau
Friedrich von Schmettau 

". . . Princess Ferdinand Louis (sic). . . was distinguished in her youth for her beauty and her numerous gallantries, and in her old age for her pride. Her Italian singing-master she had filled with so ardent a passion, that he built himself a hut on Vesuvius, to live entirely on the remembrance of her. A Count Schmettau was the declared favorite of her heart. Frederick the Great used to call her children 'the horrible Schmettau race,' for whom his imbecile brother accumulated treasures. " (Bauer: 134)

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