They put the crown on him as an extinguisher.

It was part of the plan that the new-comer, though royal, should be almost rustic.

Hanover must be one of England's possessions and not England one of Hanover's.

But the fact that the court became a German court prepared the soil, so to speak; English politics were already subconsciously committed to two centuries of the belittlement of France and the gross exaggeration of Germany.

The period can be symbolically marked out by Carteret, proud of talking German at the beginning of the period, and Lord Haldane, proud of talking German at the end of it.