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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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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