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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.

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[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Why do we need anything "far worse"? Why not just remove them constitutionally and let them do their own thing? Smaller state and all that.