1815 - 1837, Regency & Reform

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From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the beginning of Victoria's long reign, George III was still king as he had been since 1760; but by now his madness meant that his son, the Prince of Wales, was acting as his Regent until he became king as the fourth Hanoverian George. George was he king who banned his own wife from attending his coronation, was succeeded by his brother William IV who until then had been living happily with an actress in the country.