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The King was criticized for wearing a Hanoverian rather than British sash, but this was subtly corrected in the paintings commemorating the battle
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In summer 1784 Polly Wilkes was in #Paris & clearly gasping for a good cup of #tea. Wilkes undertook to smuggle some out to her warning 'It must go in small parcels, as it is strongly prohibited'
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#OnThisDay the Georgian Lords passed 9,000 tweets since setting up shop in May 2017.
How did that happen?
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When Sir Robert Walpole fell from power one satirist had a field day depicting him evacuating all the offices he controlled. Among those lurking in the background under the legend "we come in now" was Bishop Smalbroke who clearly hoped to cash in
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On the duke of Marlborough's death #OTD 1722, as his son & heir, Blandford, had predeceased him, the new duke was a duchess: Henrietta, countess of Godolphin, became 2nd duchess of Marlborough.
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How secure was the Robinocracy? In 1737 Walpole was said to have been looking for a way out & to have offered Sir John Barnard the chancellorship. Barnard demurred saying it was too much trouble & he couldn't (honestly) make as much as he did by trade
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#OnThisDay 1780 Lord George Gordon was arrested at 6 in the evening. He was sent to @TowerOfLondon on a charge of high treason for inciting the #riots that had transfixed #London since the 2nd
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#OnThisDay 1794 the royal family went to the opera to hear 'the famous singer' Brigida Giorgi Branti. She rounded off the evening with a rendition of God Save the King 'as if she were a native of England'
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#OnThisDay 1662 Samuel Pepys (who died #OTD 1703) took his wife to see Marlowe's Dr Faustus at the Red Bull 'but so wretchedly & poorly done, that we were sick of it'
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#OnThisDay 1794 there was a #marathon session in the House of Lords as they debated the Habeas Corpus bill, sitting till 2 the next morning... It passed with a thumping majority of almost 100.
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