King ludwig gay

Supposedly somebody in the same
royal family as Ludwig or the royal house had his
coat that he wore that night and had two bullet

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holes in it, and supposedly she showed it to some
other people. It was
that's something that had already come and gone. There was findings on autopsy that showed he
had scars on his frontal lobes for meningitis when he
was a baby, so that could have been something.

Speaker 1(40:05):
Sure, I mean that will have some sort of effect.
And like you said, they performed an autopsy which strongly
suggests that he died.

Yeah, pretty impressive.

Speaker 2(31:19):
Now it's no big deal, but yeah, at the time
it was.

Speaker 1(31:21):
And then some of the other technology that he employed.
He had hot and cold running water, that was not
very common back then.

Speaker 2(31:30):
What else he had central heat, he had forced air,
he had a little electric bell system for his servants
ring it in, and he had telephone lines even though
there was not you know, there was known he could
really call.

They used the word technology,
and that was part of that historicism, that you took
something that you loved about the past, but you improved it,
you made it better. Honestly, I’d like to get my hands on those reports, they must’ve been pretty steamy . We love that kind of thing.
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Speaker 2(47:23):
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And
I think in that sense he's appealing in a lot

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of ways. Obviously,

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Romanticism was all about emotion and art and vast imagination
and history, and so all of this sort of wrapped
up in this idea that he was like, all right, well,
I'm going to pretend like I'm Louis the fourteenth and
basically sit around all day and fantasize.

Speaker 1(11:36):
Right, And then also, really importantly, one part of Romanticism,
the architectural part of is called historicism.

He was a
ceremonial figurehead, and geopolitically speaking, he really was not very
significant at all.

Speaker 2(09:22):
Yeah, so I imagine, I mean, from everything I know about
poor little Ludwig, this probably wasn't the worst thing in
the world, because all of a sudden he was forced
into a figurehead sort of role, right, And I get
the idea that that was probably ideal for him, Like
he didn't he didn't want to govern.

And
then they got their butts went pretty good. I guess personal psychiatrist essentially,
is what it came to. Yeah, because when you drown, you sink,
your lungs take on water, and you know, ten seconds
you can be at the bottom of that lake. But he neglected his duties as king of Bavaria which remained considerable despite that Bavaria no longer functioned as an independent nationality.

He built

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a lavish hunting retreat. This one was in the evening, and
they never came back, so people went out to look
for them, and when they did, they discovered them dead,

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floating face down in Lake Sternberg on the castle grounds.

Speaker 2(41:07):
Yeah, the story was Ludwig wanted to drown himself, made
a break for the water.

It’s possible that Ludwig subsequently had a heart attack and died, owing to both the physical exertions of murdering von Gudden, coupled with the frigid temperatures of the lake.

There are very few people he could call,
but he did have telephone lines.

Speaker 1(31:48):
Apparently it would it would connect to hohen Schwangau, that
his childhood castle a mile away.

Speaker 2(31:55):
Oh really, okay, well that makes sense.

Speaker 1(31:57):
Yeah. But he just you know, he was

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obsessed with these projects.