Somewhere out there, in the best of all possible words, the Tories lost the 2015 election and Ed Thomas wrote his best work, an AH about the ministry of Charles James Fox, Britain’s least likely Prime Minister.
But since we’re not in that world, we’ll have to imagine such a scenario on our own.
Rewatching the wonderful Nigel Hawthorne and Ian Holm play off of each other in the Madness of King George, gave me an idea: what if the Regency Crisis of 1788 had ended with a permanently incapacitated George III and his waste of a son becoming Prince Regent 20 years earlier?
What does a Fox Ministry mean for Britain and Europe?
What does the earlier Regency mean for the immensely dysfunctional Royal Family and for the British Government?
But since we’re not in that world, we’ll have to imagine such a scenario on our own.
Rewatching the wonderful Nigel Hawthorne and Ian Holm play off of each other in the Madness of King George, gave me an idea: what if the Regency Crisis of 1788 had ended with a permanently incapacitated George III and his waste of a son becoming Prince Regent 20 years earlier?
What does a Fox Ministry mean for Britain and Europe?
What does the earlier Regency mean for the immensely dysfunctional Royal Family and for the British Government?