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Radio 3,1 min

Were the Hanoverians boring?

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Historian Jeremy Black and Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures Desmond Shawe-Taylor talk to Anne McElvoy about the 18th Century monarchs. Image: Barthélemy du Pan, The Children of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1746. The Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2014.

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