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On This Day In Royal History . 19 July 1821 . King George IV coronation . . ◼ When George III died in 1820, the Prince Regent, then aged 57, ascended the throne as George IV, with no real change in his powers. He had been the Prince Regent following the decline in his father’s mental illness for eleven years. . The New kings lifestyle was extraordinary & extravagant in every way. He had enjoyed a huge number of mistresses in his earlier days; his gluttonous love of food & drink was proverbial; & his exotic taste in art & architecture had already produced England’s most flamboyant building – the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. . Then came the coronation possibly the most extravagant in history. Seven supporters, eldest sons of peers, were needed to uphold the nine yards of his heavy & magnificent train of crimson velvet, decorated with golden stars. Beneath the train he wore a tight-fitting white satin suit in sixteenth-century style, with a neo-classical mantle of blue velvet, embroidered in gold & lined with ermine. On his head he flaunted a black Spanish hat decked with white ostrich feathers & a heron’s plume. Curls of his wig fell coquettishly over his forehead. . The painter Benjamin Haydon was present to see the king’s entry & wrote a memorable description: ‘Something rustles, & a being buried in satin, feathers & diamonds rolls gracefully into his seat. The room rises with a sort of feathered, silken thunder. Plumes wave, eyes sparkle, glasses are out, mouths smile & one man becomes the prime object of attraction to thousands. The way in which the King bowed was really royal. As he looked towards the peeresses & foreign ambassadors, he showed like some gorgeous bird of the east’. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1821 #coronation #d19jul #kinggeorgeIV #GeorgeIV #HouseofHanover #History #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #Portraitpainting #historyinpictures #Britishhistory #Britishroyals #otd #Britishroyalfamily #Britishroyalty #Westminster #Westminsterabbey #Royals #GreatBritain #Historic #HistoryFacts #onthisday #Royalhistory #Theking #onthisday #London 🎨 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021. (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRf1EfEsjai/?utm_medium=tumblr

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On This Day In History . 7 August 1821 . Caroline of Brunswick died . ◼ Caroline died at Brandenburg House in Hammersmith at 10:25 p.m. on 7 August 1821 at the age of 53. Her physicians thought she had an intestinal obstruction, but she may have had cancer, although there were rumours at the time that she had been poisoned. . ▪ Caroline was buried in Brunswick Cathedral on the 25th. . . About Caroline; . ◼ Born Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel on 17 May 1768, she was best known as Caroline of Brunswick, & was Queen of the United Kingdom as the wife of King George IV from 29 January 1820 until her death in 1821. Between 1795 & 1820, she was the Princess of Wales. . ◼ Caroline married George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV) in 1795, they had one child, Princess Charlotte of Wales. Shortly after Charlotte's birth, George & Caroline separated. . ◼ In 1817, Caroline's daughter Charlotte died in childbirth; she heard the news from a passing courier as George had refused to write & tell her. . ◼ In 1820, George became king of the United Kingdom & Hanover. George hated her, vowed she would never be the queen, & insisted on a divorce, which she refused. . ◼  Caroline returned to Britain to assert her position as queen. She was wildly popular & the new king was despised for his immoral behaviour. . ◼ In July 1821, Caroline was barred from the coronation on the orders of her husband. She fell ill in London & died three weeks later on 7 August 1821; her funeral procession passed through London on its way to her native Brunswick, where she was buried. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1821 #7Aug #CarolineofBrunswick #QueenConsort #Royalty #HouseofBrunswickBevern #HouseofHanover  #History #Monarchy #BritishMonarchy #Queencaroline #Instahistory #Royalhistory #thequeen #HistoricArt #historyfacts #royalfamily #Hammersmith #Brandenburg #Greatbritain Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019 (at London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B04HYnsAOF7/?igshid=49dvl6m0kkcn

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On This Day In History . 19 July 1821 . George IV Coronation Drama . . ◼ George IV's relationship with his wife Caroline had deteriorated by the time of his accession. They had lived separately since 1796, & both were having affairs. In 1814, Caroline left the England for continental Europe, but she chose to return for her husband's coronation, & to publicly assert her rights as queen consort. However, George IV refused to recognise Caroline as Queen. . ◼ The King sought a divorce, but his advisors suggested that any divorce proceedings might involve the publication of details relating to the King's own adulterous relationships. Therefore, he requested & ensured the introduction of the Pains & Penalties Bill, under which Parliament could have imposed legal penalties without a trial in a court of law. The bill would have annulled the marriage & stripped Caroline of the title of Queen. The bill proved extremely unpopular with the public, & was withdrawn from Parliament. George IV decided, nonetheless, to exclude his wife from his coronation at Westminster Abbey, on 19 July 1821. . ◼ Despite not receiving an invite she made her way to England & was greeted by a royal salute from Dover Castle, receiving a rapturous welcome from flag-waving crowds shouting ‘God save Queen Caroline’. All the way to London she was treated ‘like a fairy princess returning to fight an ogre’. . ◼ Everywhere she went, she was regarded as victim of her husband’s spite. But George was adamant: he forbade anyone even to mention her name, & positively insisted that the churches should not include ‘our most gracious Queen Caroline’ in their prayers. . ◼ After arriving at Westminster Abbey, she tried to find a way in, but door after door was closed in her face. Caroline fell ill that day & died on 7 August; during her final illness she often stated that she thought she had been poisoned. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1821 #coronation #d19jul #kinggeorgeIV #GeorgeIV #HouseofHanover #History #BritishMonarchy #QueenCaroline #CarolineofBrunswick #Instahistory #RoyalHistory #HistoryFacts #GreatBritain #Westminsterabbey . Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Eliz (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HW5xrAadK/?igshid=hngm0y1ut3ev

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On This Day In History . 19 July 1821 . King George IV coronation . The banquet . . ◼ The coronation was on a gargantuan scale: the statistics are mindblowing. An eyewitness lists: ‘7,442 lbs of beef – 7,133 lbs of veal – 2,474 lbs of mutton – 20 quarters of house-lamb – 20 legs of house-lamb – 5 saddles of lamb – 55 quarters of grass lamb – 160 lamb’s sweetbreads – 389 cowheels – 400 calves’ feet – 250 lbs of suet – 160 geese – 720 pullets and capons – 1,610 chickens – 520 fowls for stock – 1,730 lbs of bacon – 550 lbs of lard – 912 lbs of butter – 84 hundred of eggs.’ This was just for starters!, however, for there were also plates of fish, shellfish, venison, pastries, creams & jellies, & of course hundreds of bottles of wine, port, sherry, champagne, & 100 gallons of iced punch. All this was for three hundred & twelve male guests. . ◼ The ladies were crowded into two tiers of wooden galleries which had been constructed to run each side, along the entire length of the hall. Here they were expected to sit & wait & watch for hours as their menfolk ate below. The ladies must have been famished – but this was not the sum total of their discomfort. As time went by, 2,000 candles in the chandeliers above them began to sputter & drizzle hot wax onto their beautiful coiffures & silken dresses. For hours the poor peeresses suffered hunger & hot wax. It was not until about 8.30 p.m. that the king finally rose to go back to his home at Carlton House. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1821 #coronation #d19jul #kinggeorgeIV #GeorgeIV #HouseofHanover #History #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #Royalart #instahistory #Westminster #Westminsterabbey #Royal #Theking #GreatBritain #Historic #HistoryFacts #onthisday (at Palace of Westminster) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HWOQCgQPZ/?igshid=1b8nu3c40fqmu

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On This Day In History . 19 July 1821 . King George IV coronation . . ◼ Due to his costume he could hardly walk & indeed during the coronation service he had to be revived with smelling-salts. He became so hot that he had to use handkerchief after handkerchief to mop his brow, afterwards handing each of them to the ever-suffering archbishop. At last, after five hours of pomp, the ceremony was over, & it was time for the participants to move on to the banquet in Westminster Hall. . ◼ George's coronation was a magnificent & expensive affair, costing about £243,000 (approximately £19,970,000 in 2016; for comparison, his father's coronation had only cost about £10,000, less than a twentieth of George IV's). Despite the enormous cost, it was a popular event. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1821 #coronation #d19jul #kinggeorgeIV #GeorgeIV #HouseofHanover #History #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #Royalart #instahistory #Westminster #Westminsterabbey #Royal #Theking #GreatBritain #Historic #HistoryFacts #onthisday (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HVQaDgBYy/?igshid=ifv93zxpvmtg

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On This Day In History . 19 July 1821 . King George IV coronation . . ◼ When George III died in 1820, the Prince Regent, then aged 57, ascended the throne as George IV, with no real change in his powers. He had been the Prince Regent following the decline in his father's mental illness for eleven years. . The New kings lifestyle was extraordinary & extravagant in every way. He had enjoyed a huge number of mistresses in his earlier days; his gluttonous love of food & drink was proverbial; & his exotic taste in art & architecture had already produced England’s most flamboyant building – the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. . Then came the coronation possibly the most extravagant in history. Seven supporters, eldest sons of peers, were needed to uphold the nine yards of his heavy & magnificent train of crimson velvet, decorated with golden stars. Beneath the train he wore a tight-fitting white satin suit in sixteenth-century style, with a neo-classical mantle of blue velvet, embroidered in gold & lined with ermine. On his head he flaunted a black Spanish hat decked with white ostrich feathers & a heron’s plume. Curls of his wig fell coquettishly over his forehead. . The painter Benjamin Haydon was present to see the king’s entry & wrote a memorable description: Something rustles, & a being buried in satin, feathers & diamonds rolls gracefully into his seat. The room rises with a sort of feathered, silken thunder. Plumes wave, eyes sparkle, glasses are out, mouths smile & one man becomes the prime object of attraction to thousands. The way in which the King bowed was really royal. As he looked towards the peeresses & foreign ambassadors, he showed like some gorgeous bird of the east. . . #Onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1821 #coronation #d19jul #kinggeorgeIV #GeorgeIV #HouseofHanover #History #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #Royalart #instahistory #Westminster #Westminsterabbey #Royal #Theking #GreatBritain #Historic #HistoryFacts #onthisday (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HVB3jATgj/?igshid=1hxahws0lkd95