# George II

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- Book: [George II](https://www.bookquiver.com/norman-davies/george-ii) ([George II.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/norman-davies/george-ii.md))
- Authors: [Norman Davies](https://www.bookquiver.com/norman-davies)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-843-7
- Published: 2021-05-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his father, George I, which was later paralleled by his relationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his twenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country - economic, military and cultural - all described with characteristic wit and elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in Handel's Messiah that he stood while it was being performed - as modern audiences still do.) Much of his attention remained in Hanover and on continental politics, as a result of which he was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle, at Dettingen in 1744.