4. Story of England: Industrial Revolution
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Dilemma of George III
There's a division here. George I of course, when he arrived, people didn't want him and he was not what we would call a people person. But where we start to see the public really engage with the king is George III. He became almost like a kind of totem for the people of England. As long as he lived it seemed to them that something indefinable still existed which they couldn't quite put their finger on. The Prince Regent wanted to spend money and take lovers and he behaved appallingly. So the more one person behaves badly, the more we pine for the thing that came before it. And for some people, that's very, very magnetic,
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