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Jeremy Black considers Hanoverian precedents for the wayward behaviour of royal younger brothers.

George I was born on May 28th, 1660. Richard Cavendish provides an overview of his life.

A mysterious child from northern Germany, portrayed by William Kent on the King’s Grand Staircase, became one of the sensations of the Georgian age, as Roger Moorhouse explains.


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