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Not foreign was negotiable: wasn't George III the first of the Hanovers more comfortable in English than in German?
by cafard 7y ago
Not foreign was negotiable: wasn't George III the first of the Hanovers more comfortable in English than in German?
- pjc50 7y agoYes, it was negotiable, but that negotiation was the politics of the time; the Hanovers making concessions to Parliament to retain their acceptance, while being variably popular with the actual public, and unpopular with some of the polemic writers under discussion in the article. The massive Hanoverian propaganda effort of George IV is written all over Edinburgh street names.