Why do bad things happen to hot people?!
Welcome all, we are talking about the one and only Queen Luise of Prussia, wife, mother, babe. Although she's often difficult to find under the centuries of cultural and national baggage loaded on top of her, we do our best to unpack her life from minor aristocracy to Queen of small-ish kingdom that happens to be between a power crazed Frenchman and Moscow...and then you've got to sit through dinner with him?! You should smile more love.
Watch out for the C-bomb half way through if you're in the car with the kids...but they should know that Napoleon really was a massive CURMUDGEONLY warmonger and misogynist.
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📚 Sources:
Samantha Sproviero: Queen Louise of Prussia: Gender, Power, and Queenship during the Sattelzeit Era.
Constance Wright, Beautiful enemy; a biography of Queen Louise of Prussia
Heinrich Merz, Louise, Queen of Prussia
Review of Collected letters: Loretana de Libero, "Königin Luise von Preußen. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen 1786–1810
ROYAL HOUSEWIVES AND FEMALE TYRANTS: Gender and Sovereignty in Works by Benedikte Naubert and Luise Mühlbach Elisabeth Krimmer
