From Historia Civilis’ video, Reform or Revolution? (1830 to 1832)
https://youtu.be/h6E4_Bcmscg?t=250
The greatest thing that George IV ever did was die at the exact right time. That’s a mean thing to say, but the people at the time were way meaner.
In their obituary, The Times described their dead King, “the character of which rose little higher than animal indulgence.”
The people hated him. He was a glutton and an ostentatious spender during bad economic times.
A couple of days later, the paper couldn’t resist going back to get one last kick in, “there never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased King.”
(Stop, he’s already dead!)
George had 10 children, but none with his actual wife, (you had one job, idiot) and so the Crown passed to his 64 year old brother William.
Heh. And yeah the conservatives at the time sounded almost as bad as the ones we have today – wielding the power of counties with almost no constituents (e.g. the empty ancient city of Sarum had 2 MPs, the undersea city of Dunwich had huge voting power, and the Isle of Wight transparently bribed the few sparse voters it had because of how large it was)
and also, their only idea to solve the crisis was to commit a thousand more peterloos, which doesnt seem like a great idea in the long run…
if at first you don’t succeed…!