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George al IV-lea al Regatului Unit. Portret de Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1822. George al IV-lea ( George Augustus Frederick; 12 august 1762 – 26 iunie 1830) a fost rege al Regatului Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei și al Hanovrei din 29 ianuarie 1820, până la moartea sa.
George IV paid a state visit to Ireland but initially refused to support Catholic emancipation until 1829 when encouraged by the Duke of Wellington the Catholic Relief Act was passed. He visited Scotland in 1822, the first monarch to do so since Charles II, and encouraged by Sir Walter Scott wore full Highland regalia leading to a revival of Scottish tartan dress that had been banned after the ...
Hace 3 días · George IV's coronation in the Abbey on 19th July 1821 was a superbly extravagant pageant that cost a staggering £230,000. He had a new crown containing over 12,000 diamonds specially made. The ageing and obese King sweltered in his suit, thick velvet coronation robes, a long curled wig and plumed hat, and he used no fewer than nineteen handkerchiefs to mop his heavily perspiring brow!
Georg IV av Storbritannien ( engelska: George IV ), George Augustus Frederick, på svenska Georg August Fredrik , född 12 augusti 1762 på St James's Palace, London, död 26 juni 1830 på Windsor Castle, Berkshire, var prinsregent 1811 – 1820 och kung av Förenade kungariket Storbritannien och Irland och Kungariket Hannover 1820 – 1830 .
William IV, later Duke of Clarence, was the third son of George III and Queen Charlotte. ‘The Sailor King’, he spent much of his early life at sea. In 1818 he married Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen; sadly none of their children survived to adulthood. William succeeded his brother, George IV.
George IV is arguably the most magnificent of British monarchs and formed an unrivalled collection of art, much of which remains in the Royal Collection. As Prince of Wales and, from 1820, magnificent king, he purchased paintings, metalwork, textiles, furniture, watercolours, books and ceramics in vast numbers, many of these works by the finest artists of the day.
3 de nov. de 2015 · George IV: The Rebel Who Would Be King. Christopher Hibbert. St. Martin's Publishing Group, Nov 3, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 864 pages. Hibbert delivers a superbly detailed picture of the life and times of George IV including his exorbitant spending on his homes, his clothes, and his women; his patronage of the arts; his 'illegal ...
