S1.53 William IV

Rex Factor

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4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2012

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Sandwiched between the Georgians and Queen Victoria, poor old William IV is perhaps the most forgotten of monarchs. Little was expected of William IV as a young man - an excitable character sent off to the navy by George III, he lived the typical life of a sailor and came home with rough habits and bad language. When he came to the throne in 1830 he proved hard-working, conscientious and arguably Britain's first truly constitutional monarch and oversaw the passing of the 1832 Reform Act which proved a major step forward in parliamentary democracy. His final challenge was to survive long enough to ensure that his niece, Victoria, would not face the regency of her mother. Could he ensure a stable legacy for Victoria? Could he be the first Hanoverian Rex Factor? (Parental Advice: There's one instance of censored bad language by the Sailor King!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.3	Welcome to Rex Factor. actor.
0:55.0	This week, William the fourth.
1:00.0	William the fourth
1:21.0	with your host Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Hello. Welcome to that Factue being all the Kings and Queens of England from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth the second. And this week presumably Victoria then? Well it's not because we
1:23.9	are doing the forgotten man of the British monarchy William the fourth. Yeah now I've
1:29.4	never heard of him. So we should say congratulations to David Nolan who was the only person to
1:35.8	notice that last week when talking about George the 4th and when I said about how
1:40.6	George was in Ireland and was presented with Laurel wreath by Daniel O'Connell,
1:45.6	his famous Irishman.
1:46.6	And I actually, the first time round, referred to him as Daniel O'Don.
1:50.6	For people who don't know, which presumably they were quite a number as no one else noticed is an Irish singer.
1:57.0	An Irish Cliff Richard who himself is the English Elvis and if you look at Daniel O'Donnell and Elvis
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