Spooktacular House Decorating Contest & Tour Hanover Park, Il
Hatton detailed how prior to his accession one correspondent, writing to George in English, flattered his command of the language and how Robert Harley writing in 1710 insisted that he knew George possessed ‘an English heart’. Both seem to indicate that George had additional than a smattering of English at the time of his accession. References to him holding talks with the notoriously unpolished 3rd earl of Berkeley about the situation of French sea defences early in the reign also suggest that he was capable of holding a technical conversation. Princess Thyra was the youngest daughter of King Christian IX...