The Visit of King George IV to Edinburgh in 1822
An ardent Unionist and British patriot Scott was concerned that the Scottish people Canada Goose Outlet were weakening in their enthusiasm for the British Canada Goose online ideal.
The economic depression of the post Napoleonic War period had unsettled the buy canada goose jacket cheap population. There were even working people becoming more active in radical politics.
Coming soon buy canada goose jacket after the American and French Revolutions was the so called ‘Radical War’ in Scotland in Canada Goose Coats On Sale 1820. This was actually canada goose store more of a period of social unrest and workers protest as people demanded reform canada goose factory sale of Canada Goose Jackets the government.
Thus it was in this climate that Sir Walter decided to organise a grand occasion for the people of Edinburgh. He invited King George IV to come to the city as a morale booster for the population and to cement Scottish English relations.
For the first time in over 170 years a reigning monarch was coming to canadian goose jacket the city and it was also hoped this would quell any nascent cheap canada goose uk revolutionary fervour among the populace.
The news caused quite a stir among Edinburgh society and even greater excitement was generated when the Scots people were told that the king would be wearing a kilt of Stuart tartan.
This was uk canada goose momentous news because tartan had actually been banned in Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. In fact a canada goose coats Highland gathering was organised to promote the wearing of tartan and all things Scottish became fashionable amongst the higher classes.
It was a romanticised atmosphere inspired by Scott’s dreamy depictions of the north of Scotland in the likes of the Waverley novels.
However when people gazed their eyes on the king at the Palace of Holyrood House they could cheap Canada Goose not believe what they saw. Certainly King George was indeed wearing a kilt but incredibly it was so short that it ran up his thighs to a few inches above his knees. It was like an 18th century version of the mini kilt worn by ladies nowadays in these modern times.
Not only that but the king also wore pink stockings which just added to the sartorial disaster of his clothing. With legs that is said would have graced a billiard table it was canada goose outlet sale a sight to behold. In fact the whole sight of Canada Goose sale King George may have come as a shock to the Edinburgh folk.
The reason was that as a lover of high living and a connoisseur of good food and fine wine the king was remarkably rotund. Standing at only 5 feet 2 inches and with a girth of around 56 inches he was almost as wide as he was tall.
There is a statue in canada goose uk shop his canada goose honour canada goose clearance with pride of place in the city’s George Street canada goose uk black friday to commemorate the 1822 visit. Incidentally the street is actually named after his father King George III and the statue bears little resemblance to his son.
Francis Chantry’s sculpture of 1832 depicts a towering figure, tall in height and of lean proportions. It is very much an idealised portrayal of the portly king.
All the great and the good of Edinburgh high society were then invited to the Assembly Rooms in George Street for the ‘Caledonian Ball’.
It was here that over 200 ladies were required to line up and uk canada goose outlet receive a kiss from King George.
The process took around an hour and a half and was Canada Goose Online hardly the glorious moment that the ladies might have expected.
King George suffered from halitosis canada goose coats on sale so the meet and greet was quite an ordeal for the genteel and refined female set of the higher classes.
The bad breath of the King took some of the shine away from the esteemed occasion.
Many childrens’ nursery rhymes and playground songs are hard to provenance for their origins arising as they do from informal beginnings in popular culture. Therefore you can find Canada Goose Parka several claims of canada goose black friday sale origin for the same rhyme.
Such is the case with the famous ‘Georgie Porgie’ poem as you will find a few different versions of how it came about.
Edinburgh claims it as its own and deriving from King George’s historic visit to the city. With his obese frame and his bad breath we have the opening couplet of the rhyme
“Georgie Porgie pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made canada goose uk outlet them cry”
Nevertheless the royal visit and the pageantry which accompanied it proved to have been an outstanding success.
It lent popularity to the naming of the clan and family tartans and canada goose clearance sale had the full effect that Sir Walter Scott had originally intended. The strength of the Union of Scotland and England was more assured after the 1822 visit.
It was not only a morale booster for the people of Edinburgh but also for the King https://www.canadagoosejacketca.ca himself who was said to have enjoyed the visit immensely.
