“Sometimes when I read about how historic monarchs treated their children I think "wow, I honestly wouldn't blame the children if they'd decided patricide was the best solution." Looking at you, Frederick William I and how your treated Frederick the Great.” - Submitted by Anonymous
Even more striking, as it is only necessary to mention, is the connection of a religious way of life with the most intensive development of business acumen among those sects whose otherworldliness is as proverbial as their wealth, especially the Quakers and the Mennonites. The part which the former have played in England and North America fell to the latter in Germany and the Netherlands. That in East Prussia Frederick William I tolerated the Mennonites as indispensable to industry, in spite of their absolute refusal to perform military service, is only one of the numerous well-known cases which illustrates the fact, though, considering the character of that monarch, it is one of the most striking.
Kinda wish there were more random anecdotes about these three during the campaigns of the 6th coalition war. Seems to me that they would have had a weird dynamic; you have one guy too shy to speak in grammatically correct sentences, one charismatic idealist and one guy who always seems 110% done with everything.