Frederick II, King ‘in’ Prussia, upon
whom was bestowed the celebrated sobriquet of ‘the Great’ in his
lifetime, was in his own words ‘a philosopher and want[ed] to be
buried as such…” This was eventually carried out in 1991, in
accordance with his wishes – two hundred and five years after his
death, on the terrace at his beloved palace of Sanssouci [‘free of
care’]; at the…
