A Prussian Kind of Weekend
July 12th 2009 The Hohenzollerns sure had it good. Till they didn't.
All those Friedrichs, Wilhelms, and of course Friedrich Wilhelms, along with their wives and children, left their mark on Berlin and environs, most notably Potsdam. This weekend sort of became, for me, a theme tour of the Hohenzollerns' palaces and pleasure gardens. But intertwined with all that sumptuous Prussian-ness it was hard not to
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