In 1822 Sir Walter Scott, a romantic novelist, was asked to stage-manage George IV's visit to Edinburgh.

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George IV, when a rotund prince, liked to gallivant with mistresses there.

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Gould gained notice after successfully stuffing George IV's pet giraffe.

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The coronation robe worn by King George IV is going on show to the public for the first time in 30 years as part of a Regency fashion exhibition in Brighton.

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The Diamond Diadem, made for the famously extravagant coronation of George IV in 1821, has been worn by the queen to and from the State Opening of Parliament throughout her reign.

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Having made such a hash of it last time the Diana drama did more for republicanism than any episode since George IV had his popular wife tried for adultery in 1820 it was imperative that, in the case of Prince William, the second in line to the throne, it should get it right.

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Transformed in the early 1800s by the Prince Regent (later King George IV) from a south-coast fishing village into a fashionable spa, Brighton boasted a railway connection with London as early as 1841 a couple of years after Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot published their historical findings on how to fix images made by the effects of light.

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You have to give George Lucas credit: Any filmmaker who starts his science fiction epic with the label "Episode IV" is thinking big.

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