George II (Penguin Monarchs): Not Just a British Monarch.

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George II

George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his father, George I, which was later paralleled by his relationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his twenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country — economic, military and cultural — all described with characteristic wit and elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in Handel's Messiah that he stood while it was being performed — as modern audiences still do.) Much of his attention remained in Hanover and on continental politics, as a result of which he was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle, at Dettingen in 1744.

• Author
• Norman Davies

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 208

• Series
• Penguin Monarchs

• Publisher
• Allen Lane

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-197842-0

• EAN
• 9780141978420

• Release date
• 2021