Thanks for the links, I will be checking them out! I looked up Trenck and Amalie after finishing the book because they were the people I was most curious about, and saw that the Trenck/Amalie ship had basically no historical evidence.
Trenck is a really fun character in the books (he shows up in the first book also, midway through the Consuelo/Haydn road trip). Amalie was also cool, though I felt like she was underutilized -- one of the weaknesses of the books is that Consuelo doesn't get to build any deep female friendships onscreen, so after the delightful secret dinner party with Amalie and the Countess Von Kleist there's not really any payoff -- though we are told in the epilogue that some of Consuelo's secret society work involves influencing Amalie.
(There's also a bit where Consuelo is in prison and learns that there is another woman in the prison named Amalie -- and she's like "I know two Amalies, the princess and my husband's cousin, it could be either or neither of them". A sketchy guard offers her the opportunity to visit this Amalie and sing to her, but this is derailed when Amalie said "I recognize Consuelo's voice -- that woman has ruined my life and I never have to see her again". Consuelo should think at this point "well, this doesn't actually help disambiguate between the two!" but instead goes "oh, no, Princess Amalie must think I betrayed her to Frederick the Great" -- she's wrong, it's actually her husband's cousin Amalie, who was seduced by Consuelo's ex-fiance.)
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Trenck is a really fun character in the books (he shows up in the first book also, midway through the Consuelo/Haydn road trip). Amalie was also cool, though I felt like she was underutilized -- one of the weaknesses of the books is that Consuelo doesn't get to build any deep female friendships onscreen, so after the delightful secret dinner party with Amalie and the Countess Von Kleist there's not really any payoff -- though we are told in the epilogue that some of Consuelo's secret society work involves influencing Amalie.
(There's also a bit where Consuelo is in prison and learns that there is another woman in the prison named Amalie -- and she's like "I know two Amalies, the princess and my husband's cousin, it could be either or neither of them". A sketchy guard offers her the opportunity to visit this Amalie and sing to her, but this is derailed when Amalie said "I recognize Consuelo's voice -- that woman has ruined my life and I never have to see her again". Consuelo should think at this point "well, this doesn't actually help disambiguate between the two!" but instead goes "oh, no, Princess Amalie must think I betrayed her to Frederick the Great" -- she's wrong, it's actually her husband's cousin Amalie, who was seduced by Consuelo's ex-fiance.)