It marks the 200th anniversary of the Regency Act, which made George Prince Regent when his father was deemed mad.
After the fall of Napoleon, he went to England, where he worked for the Prince Regent before becoming the highest-paid chef in history.
It seems almost bizarre to imagine William Wilberforce, the high-minded anti-slavery campaigner, indulging in friendly social chit-chat with the Prince Regent (a typical conversation with the prince, as recorded by an amazed Persian diplomat, encompassed such topics as the large size of his brother's penis, revealed as he relieved himself out of a carriage window).
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.
The Catholic Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens took the government's resignation to the regent, Prince Charles.
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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.
Later that evening, he lept on to the bonnet of a Jaguar car driving up Regent Street in a royal convoy containing the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.
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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