Hvem daterte Georg IV av Storbritannia?

Georg IV August Fredrik (engelsk George Augustus Frederick, tysk Georg IV August Friedrich (født 12. august 1762 i St. James's Palace, død 26. juni 1830 i Windsor Castle) var prinsregent i 1811–1820 og konge av Storbritannia og Irland og Hannover fra 1820 til 1830. Han var medlem av det tyske fyrstehuset Hannover.

Han var eldste sønn av Georg III av Storbritannia, Irland og Hannover og Sophie Charlotte av Mecklenburg-Strelitz og styrte fra 1811 som prinsregent på bakgrunn av sin fars sinnssykdom. Hans regentskap (engelsk: regency) ga navn til perioden, dens arkitektur og dens moter. Georg IV fikk arkitekten John Nash til å bygge Royal Pavilion i Brighton og ombygge Buckingham Palace, samt Jeffry Wyattville til å gjenreise Windsor-slottet.

I hemmelighet hadde han giftet seg med en katolikk, Maria Fitzherbert, i 1785. I 1795 giftet han seg offisielt med Caroline av Braunschweig, som han forgjeves prøvde å skille seg fra etter å ha blitt konge i 1820. (Caroline døde i 1821.) Deres eneste barn, den 21-årige prinsesse Charlotte, døde etter selv å ha satt et dødfødt barn til verden i 1817.

Georg IV ble den mest forhatte av Hannover-kongene. Befolkningen hatet ham for å leve i luksus og overflod på en tid da jevne folk sultet på grunn av krigen med Frankrike, og det var oppløp i gatene etter brød. Georg selv var smellfet, men fikk likevel dikteren Leigh Hunt idømt en bot på 500 pund og fengslet i to år for å ha kalt kongen «en feit adonis på 50».

Da Georg IV døde i 1830, ble han etterfulgt på tronen av sin yngre bror Vilhelm.

Grace Dalrymple Elliott (født 1754 i Edinburgh i Skottland, død 1823 i Ville d'Avray i Frankrike) var en skotsk prostituert. Hun var kjent for sine forhold til mange av samtidens berømte menn og makthavere, fremst den kongelige franske hertug Filip av Orléans. Hun ble arrestert av Robespierres regime under den franske revolusjon og forfattet memoarer om sine opplevelser under revolusjonen, Ma Vie Sous La Révolution, som ble publisert posthumt i 1859.

Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham (née Denison; 29 March 1770 – 11 October 1861) was an English courtier and noblewoman. She is thought to be the last mistress of George IV of the United Kingdom.

Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757 – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and celebrity figure. She lived in England, in the cities of Bristol and London; she also lived in France and Germany for a time. She enjoyed poetry from the age of seven and started working, first as a teacher and then as an actress, from the age of 14. She wrote many plays, poems and novels. She was a celebrity, gossiped about in newspapers, famous for her acting and writing. During her lifetime she was known as "the English Sappho". She earned her nickname "Perdita" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale) in 1779, and was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales.

Olga Alexandrovna Zherebtsova (née Zubova; Russian: Ольга Александровна Жеребцова; 1766–1849), also known as Madame Gerebtzoff, was a Russian aristocrat and socialite, known foremost for her political involvement and love life. She was the sister of the celebrated Zubov brothers, Prince Platon and Counts Nikolay and Valerian.

After her brothers' fall from grace following Catherine II's death, they conspired with Count Pahlen to assassinate her successor Paul whom they viewed as the author of their misfortunes. The conspirators met and discussed their plans at Zherebtsova's house. Some maintain that she appropriated the funds the British government passed through her lover Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth to the conspirators. "Once diplomatic relations with England were broken, Whitworth was ordered to leave the capital with all his staff".

Zherebtsova followed Lord Whitworth to England where she was shocked to learn about his prospective betrothal to the widow of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset. It was rumored that Madame Gerebtzoff extorted from her rival some 10,000 pounds before turning her attention to the Prince Regent, whose mistress she is said to have become. She is even said to have given birth to a natural son, named George Nord, after his purported royal father.

In the declining years of her life, Madame Gerebtzoff returned to the Russian capital, where she again became immersed in court intrigues through her powerful son-in-law, Prince Aleksey Orlov. In the 1840s, she was the patron of Alexander Herzen, who would recall her character and opinions with admiration in his memoirs "My Past and Thoughts":

Like a tree in winter, she maintained the linear outline of her boughs after the leaves had fallen off and the scraggy bare branches had been pinched with cold, all the more clearly demonstrating her magnificent stature, her daring bulk, and the trunk, though white with frost, still stalking lordly and sulkily and braving every tempest and gust.