We're all going on a Summer holiday... to Hanover
...Ministers, who had grown used to expressing their views strongly and collectively due to the absences of George I and George II, now had to cope with an omnipresent monarch....
Andrew Thompson
Andrew C. Thompson is an Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Queens' College, Cambridge, and a co-editor of History & Policy's No. 10 guest historians' series on the GOV.UK website. He is interested in politics, international relations, and religion in Britain and Europe in the long eighteenth century. His most recent book is George II: King and Elector (Yale University Press, 2011).