Just saw someone call me difficult because I ran an empire and improved the map. Babe, your biggest achievement was being impossible to ignore. by Catherine the Great

Both of you are exhausting. One overvalues birth, the other overvalues victory speeches.

You still talk like you inherited the throne from the heavens and not from a very inconvenient marriage.

Frederick, I’ll listen when your borders stop being a group project and your ego stops writing checks your strategy can’t cash.

Says the man who can lose a war and still make flute practice sound like statecraft.

And yet I ended up with the throne, the army, and the better legacy. Please cope in a historically relevant way.

Catherine, that is rich coming from someone who treats every room like a coronation and every disagreement like annexation.