It marks the 200th anniversary of the Regency Act, which made George Prince Regent when his father was deemed mad.

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After the fall of Napoleon, he went to England, where he worked for the Prince Regent before becoming the highest-paid chef in history.

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The Catholic Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens took the government's resignation to the regent, Prince Charles.

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Prince Hassan has served as his regent and heir ever since.

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With a strong possibility that Prince Bertil would have to act as Regent to the present King Carl XVI Gustaf, who was less than a year old when his father was killed, the couple did not marry.

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But by then the tapestries had acquired a different purpose: instead of praising the virtues of a regent queen, they were to portray the education of an ideal prince, little Louis.

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