WI: Prince Henry of Prussia doesn't die of smallpox

Henry seems to have been a bright and promising young man, and possibly a better candidate to be king than his brother nicknamed "der dicke luderjahn" (the fat bastard). Even Friedrich the Great had a higher opinion of Henry's abilities than FWII's, since he said, "he [Friedrich Wilhelm II] contented himself with making cradles and making babies to fill them with".

A cool double POD would maybe be to have FWII die and we see a King Henry I of Prussia. Although, if both live, it might be a repetition of der alte Fritz and his brother Heinrich. Heinrich was condemned (according to the biography I've got on Fritz) to be a younger son, forever in the shadow and forever cursing his lot for being born a younger son. Also, Voltaire wrote that if Fritz was the kind of man the Enlightenment dreamed of, Heinrich was that in fact.

Add to that that Catherine the Great wanted to make the senior Heinrich the ruler of a Russian-sponsored principality in Wallachia, there might be an affinity between the two Henrys then.
 
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