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Hi, my name is Rosa!

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Oh you’re definitely not out of your mind anon! He was famous for his beauty during his lifetime.

Comments on his appearance started when he was a tiny child because back in those days people had no reservations about judging children based on appearances 😭 One source said that when he first arrived in Austria when he was three years old nobody could resent him for his fathers crimes as he was simply too beautiful to hate, which gives the very strange implication that people would be completely fine with bullying an average-looking toddler 😭

But here is a brief compilation of some of the many many many sources talking about his appearance when he was an adult:

Anton Prokesch-Osten says:

“The handsome, noble young man, with his deep blue eyes, manly brow, rich blond hair, the silence on his lips, and the calm self-control in his entire bearing, struck me as strange. I had the premonition that comes over a young man at his first meeting with the girl to whom he will give his heart.”

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“His bearing, his demeanour, his gait, his gaze were energetic and handsome; no horse was too tough for him; he resembled the young god Mars.”

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“I still see him before me in all the freshness of his age, slender, full of nobility and dignity in his bearing, in his movements; with remarkable agility and skill, the effect of his knightly exercises, and yet full of that calm, that seriousness, the foundation of his character.

I see that beautiful head shaded with blond curls; that blue eye, full of melancholy and fire; that nose full of finesse, that mouth where a sweet smile wandered, those cheeks shining with all the roses of youth, that face in general where the features of the father and the mother were married; features with which fell into the dust the last monument of an era which already twenty years belongs to history. I still hear that voice which sometimes spoke with such gravity, sometimes lent the sweetest inflections to the tender outpourings of the soul.

I only have to recall this image to explain to myself the love of the thousand upon thousand inhabitants of this city who had only seen the Prince from afar and yet felt seized and drawn away as if by a magic spell.”

Captain Moll says:

“The inhabitants of Vienna saw and admired this handsome, supple, and agile figure, who knew how to handle the most spirited horses. On horseback at the head of the troop, his eyes shone and his features lit up with expressions of joy and contentment.”

Countess Camerata says:

“He is tall, handsome, reminiscent of Emperor N., in his features and gestures, and has an air of sadness, of misfortune, which makes him even more interesting.”

Hermann Rollett says:

Hello, thank you so much! 💕💖

Unfortunately I don’t think there’s any record of what Napoleon II thought of the Duke of Wellington (that I’m aware of). However I will try to extrapolate from what I do know!

It’s possible he may have hated Wellington, as he generally resented the allied commanders who fought against his father, and he wasn’t afraid of harshly criticising them - for example he was very critical of his uncle Archduke Charles.

However there were also some allied commanders that he liked, such as Prince Schwarzenberg! Since Schwarzenberg and Wellington were quite similar figures, perhaps he may have had a favourable opinion of Wellington too.

It seems that Napoleon II directed most of his hatred at Russia and Prussia rather than England. From his military studies it appears that he attributed his fathers downfall to the campaigns of 1812-14 rather than to the battle of Waterloo, so he may not have resented Wellington as much as you would expect. Additionally, Napoleon II took part in the “anglomania” trend where young people in Europe adopted English customs such as greeting each other by shaking hands, which indicates that he probably didn’t have much against the English.

I didn't find much info on this, but what did Napoleon II think of his cousin (Napoleon III) and vice versa?

(Also, where should I read more on Napoleon II online?)

Hello! Thank you for being so kind 🥰

So Napoleon II never really cared about his Bonaparte cousins 😭 He agreed with the assessment that they were foolish and irresponsible, and that he should ignore any overtures from the Bonaparte family unless they were from Joseph or Lucien. He wanted to return to France, but only through official means and with the consent of all the European powers.

I know less about Napoleon III, but from what I do know he was trying to use Napoleon II as a political tool but didn’t care about him personally at all 😢 one of the many reasons to hate Napoleon III 😡

Hello!

So there isn’t much information on what he thought of the Romanov family specifically, but he hated Russia because of the role it played in his fathers downfall, and because Russia embodied the conservative, absolutist ideas he opposed.

In 1830 he was a strong supporter of the Polish uprising against Russian occupation, so much so that he threw himself on his bed in floods of tears every time he heard of a Polish defeat, and so he must have hated Tsar Nicholas and Grand Duke Konstantin (as he should 😤) for their actions in Poland.