ABSTRACT
Both Queen Louise and Princess Fredericka were married on Christmas Eve, 1793, in the “White Hall” at Berlin with all appropriate rejoicings, but it cannot have been long before Louise suffered a reaction from her first bridal ecstasies over her Hohenzollern Prince. However much one may revere Louise, however conscious one may be of her great charm, it is impossible to maintain that she always took her marriage vows very seriously the fat but inflammable Frederick William II of Prussia. All the virtuous feminine objections, however, were eventually overcome by the weighty, and at the same time engaging, personality of Frederick William himself, by the deep respect felt throughout Germany for the successors and dynasty of Frederick the Great. In the event, the Prince’s father, who shared none of these qualities, succeeded in persuading the Princesses’ grandmother to listen to his proposals on his sons’ behalf.
