- Frederick was hailed as a military genius and given the moniker “Frederick the Great.”
- He preferred French culture over German, He did not believe in Divine Rights of Kings, and he further weakened the Holy Roman Empire.
- Frederick-Wilhelm his father, had already lost two children and had to keep this baby alive to ensure a smooth royal transition when he would die.
- He was a poet and writer. He would write many poems and 30 books while composing music.
- Before the Seven Years War, Frederick busted his alliances with Russia and France, mostly because he dumped them and made bad jokes about symbolic characters such as Madame de Pompadour and tsarina Elisabeth.