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one of our witches(she would have been far too old),
this image does have that war-witch vibe, in my opinion.

Of course, the fact that it's then-Crown Princess, Cecilie( of Mecklenburg),
which would make her, if I'm right, the mother of Friedrich IV(well, sorta kinda, the family tree doesn't go that way as we've been told)...
well, that's just a bonus.

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"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"

"Ach, those damned helmets," said Hannelore, forehead in hand. "Those of us who came to aviation from the cavalry had to keep wearing them for the first year of the Great War. Even less comfortable than they look. And people—even some allied witches!—thought we used them to ram the enemy."

--G.
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*SNRK!*
Yeah, I'm not surprised that some moron decided that and that other morons thought it. Because, well, morons.

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Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"

LAST EDITED ON Mar-30-18 AT 09:14 AM (EDT) by Gryphon (admin)
 
>"Ach, those damned helmets," said Hannelore, forehead in hand. "Those
>of us who came to aviation from the cavalry had to keep wearing them
>for the first year of the Great War. Even less comfortable than they
>look. And people—even some allied witches!—thought we used
>them to ram the enemy."

Knowing witches (and shipgirls, by extension), I'm almost sure that at least one Karlsland witch did use them to ram an enemy.

It was probably Wilhelmina Voss.

>Of course, the fact that it's then-Crown Princess, Cecilie( of
>Mecklenburg),
>which would make her, if I'm right, the mother of Friedrich IV

Oh yeah, missed this—she'd be Fritz the Younger's sister-in-law. He's Wilhelm II's youngest son, who didn't really exist. The math suggests that he may be Cecilie's husband's half-brother, since Empress Augusta Victoria would have been 45 when he was born in late 1902, but it's not impossible that he was their eighth child. If he had a different mother, that would mean that Augusta Victoria died no later than around 1901, rather than 1921, but I have no data on that. (If his mother was 45 when he was born, that might have caused him to at least raise an eyebrow at Hannelore's remarks when she agreed to marry him, but then again, he well knows that they are in some ways not the same sort of woman.)

Exactly what Wilhelm's seven other sons did to make themselves ineligible to succeed him when he died in 1933 (and not, as in real life, 1941) is not known, but it probably involved some combination of dissipation, wild unpopularity with the nobility, ducking the job, and/or getting killed in the Great War (the youngest of them before Fritz, Prince Joachim, would've been 24 when that one started).

Anyway, hence Hannelore's remarks about Fritz's father when she's arguing with him in episode 6—although a loyal subject of Wilhelm II, she never respected him much. Too petty, too insecure, too blustery. She's convinced, though she would never say it out loud, that the Neuroi's timing in 1914 was providential in a sense, in that it precluded Wilhelm from causing the no-aliens-required European war he was obviously spoiling for at around that time.

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.