George IV was cultured, urbane and generous. Yet he trashed his reputation with his weakness for women, wine and spectacular self-indulgence. Two centuries after he became king, Stella Tillyard introduces the two, contrasting, sides of a little-lamented monarch
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In literary history, there is an undeniable thread of novels that make substantial use of real people and situations, often through a veil of changed names.