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b' About the Book: George II (Penguin Monarchs) \n\n George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to\nBritain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible\nrelationship with his father, George I, which was later paralleled by his\nrelationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his\ntwenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive\ncountry-economic, military and cultural-all described with characteristic wit\nand elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in\nHandels Messiah that he stood while it was being performed-as modern audiences\nstill do.) Much '