Query from a friend and the Ginger Prinz

Prinz Xavier, the Ginger Prinz, as he is referred
to for his preference for the Herr's

I had a runner drop of a message from my good friend Herr Schweingutz asking me to supply information as I might glean about the new uniforms for the army, I confess I was somewhat puzzled and confused, for in truth I did not know of any such plans. On further enquiry I found the Erzherzog's older step brother, Prinze Xaver Hansuppen had been sent to mien Herr to source a suitable cut of uniform, present it to the Landgraf and set about equipping the army. Herr Schweingutz will have to employ every tailor and seamstress in the Landgravite, and those neighbouring, to complete such a task but if anyone can do it Der alt Paintenpiggen can. Leather workers and cobblers too are being engaged by the merry Prinz in making accoutrement and I hear now that weapon smiths from the Turkestan and perfidious Albion are making their way to our country. Why was this kept from your chronicler, when the court knows I have ways and means of obtaining all but the most intimate secrets, that assumes I know there is a secret to find