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#a favourite dish both of liselotte's and yours truly
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https://twitter.com/abtliselotte/status/1522887987192897536?s=21&t=2AnuxQHUNSXk2RSuXlAqOQ
I am not the one running the Twitter account, in case that is your question, but I appreciate this person's enthusiasm for Liselotte! We need more Liselotte enjoyers in this world.
The full quote this collage alludes to runs:
Marriage is like death: the day and the hour of it are marked; no one escapes. As our Lord God wills it, so it comes to pass.
Liselotte resented having been born a woman on account of the social restrictions her station as princess imposed upon her, as compared to her brother; as a child, her interests aligned more with activities that were at the time considered to be traditionally male-coded, and all her life had, to the annoyance of her fashion-conscious husband, no liking for clothes, make-up and jewellery. As an adult, she repeatedly stated in her letters that she would have preferred to have been born a male heir and become her father's successor as Elector Palatine rather than a prince's consort, which is an interesting statement, seeing as Liselotte has sometimes been interpreted as having been uninterested in politics (which was not the case, her letters contain frequent commentary on European politics at the time). She clearly resented not being able to live a self-determined life according to her own wishes and choices which is the constant, melancholy undertone of her often so humorous and at times explosive letters that must not be forgotten in our retrospective analysis of her character.
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