Hello, I'm Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces.

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The Georgian era was marked by the arrival of the Hanoverian kings.

This series, compiled from our archive, explores famous Georgians in all their glory.

In this talk, our chief curator, Tracy Borman, explores the court of George I and the Hanoverian culture

he brought with him to England.

Well, the Georgians, we're talking all about the Georgians this year at historic royal palaces.

And in this particular palace, that's quite unusual.

You think Hampton Court and you think of the tudors

and for this evening probably only for this evening i'm going to say that the georgians were much

better actually than than the tudors certainly there's a lot to admire in the georgians and we're

really trying to

bring out those stories this year and the reason why is of course because of the 300th anniversary

of the Hanoverian accession to the English throne. And so as Inter said, there's a whole raft of

fascinating activities telling you the story of the Georges.

But I would just like to spend a little bit of time introducing those Georges to you,

and particularly the first couple of Georges, because I think they're probably the least known and the most interesting.

You know, everyone knows the third one,

the mad one, and then George the fourth, thanks to Blackadder, people know quite a bit about him as well. But George the first and George the second, people generally are a pretty hard

pushed to describe them or to name anything significant that they might have done. But they were

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