S1.48 George I

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🗓️ 12 April 2012

⏱️ 64 minutes

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A lack of Protestant Stuarts in 1714 meant the start of a new dynasty with George I and the Hanoverians. Poor George wasn't the happiest of monarchs - he was perfectly happy in Hanover and went back as often as he could, while his British subjects weren't too enamoured with him as a dull German who didn't speak much English. Nevertheless, George's was an interesting reign, seeing the defeat of Jacobite rebellions from the Old Pretender, the rise of Robert Walpole (particularly during the South Sea Bubble Crisis) and the naturalisation of classical composer Handel. George also set a template for all Georgian monarchs: argue with your son and create plenty of juicy scandal! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.0	subject to status and availability. Welcome to Rex Factor!
0:40.0	This week, George the first. This week, George the first
0:48.3	with your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hood.
0:57.0	Oh, hello. Welcome to Actually to review all the Kings and Queens of England from Alfa the Great to Elizabeth
1:01.2	the second.
1:02.2	New Dynasty. A new New dynasty indeed new beginnings the Germans are
1:05.7	in town. Before we get to them however we've got lots of lovely messages from people
1:10.4	so I thought I'd read some of these out. Firstly some messages about our last episode, Queen Anne, the last of the stewards.
1:16.0	Katie Mikkelthroit put on Facebook a rhyme from the period which is King William Thinksall, Queen Mary talks all, Prince George drinks all and
1:25.4	Princess Anne eats all.
1:26.4	Yeah that was good I saw that one.
1:28.3	And Matthew Constable noted on the 17 pregnancies that Han had that no wonder her husband Prince George wanted to
1:34.0	quiet lie down most of the time. Very true. Busy man. And an interesting one from
1:38.6	Heather Britain who was saying do we know the cause of Ann's visual impairment?
1:41.7	I grew up with a severe
1:42.9	visual impairment and when it was said that she had a superb memory I wasn't
1:45.9	surprised. There have been many studies about a link between low vision and
1:49.1	blindness and a good memory. I suppose we get more practice.
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