Kdo chodil s Jiří IV.?

Jiří IV. (12. srpen 1762 Londýn – 26. červen 1830 Windsor) byl panovník Spojeného království Velké Británie a Irska a Hannoveru od smrti svého otce Jiřího III. 29. ledna 1820 do své smrti. Od roku 1811 až do nástupu na trůn, v době kdy jeho otec upadl do stavu nepříčetnosti, vládl jako princ regent.

Jiří je připomínán především pro svůj extravagantní životní styl. Roku 1797 dosáhl tělesné hmotnosti přes 111 kg a roku 1824 používal korzet vyrobený pro obvod pasu 127 cm. Byl patronem nového životního stylu. Johna Nashe pověřil stavbou královského pavilónu v Brightonu a přestavbou Buckinghamského paláce a Jeffryho Wyatvilleho rekonstrukcí Windsorského hradu. Byl také iniciátorem vzniku Národní galerie a King's College v Londýně.

Po větší část jeho regentství a vlády byl předsedou vlády Robert Jenkinson. I když Jiří vojensky nezasahoval do průběhu napoleonských válek, pokoušel se do nich politicky zasahovat. Vzdoroval emancipaci katolíků a navrhl nepopulární zákon, kterým chtěl dosáhnout rozvodu se svou nenáviděnou ženou Karolinou Brunšvickou.

Grace Dalrymple Elliott (c. 1754 – 16 May 1823) was a Scottish courtesan, writer and spy resident in Paris during the French Revolution. She was an eyewitness to events detailed in her memoirs, Journal of my life during the French Revolution (Ma Vie sous la Révolution) published posthumously in 1859. She was mistress, first to the future George IV, by whom she is said to have borne an illegitimate daughter, and then to the Duke of Orléans. Elliott trafficked correspondence and helped condemned Royalists and members of the French nobility escape from the First French Republic during the Reign of Terror. She was arrested several times but managed to avoid the guillotine, and was released following the military coup that ended the Terror and resulted in the execution of Robespierre.

In the acclaimed but widely controversial 2001 film adaptation of her memoirs by French New Wave director Éric Rohmer as The Lady and the Duke, Grace Elliot was played by English actress Lucy Russell.

Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757 – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist and celebrity figure. She lived in England, in the cities of Bristol and London; she also lived in France and Germany for a time. She enjoyed poetry from the age of seven and started working, first as a teacher and then as an actress, from the age of 14. She wrote many plays, poems and novels. She was a celebrity, gossiped about in newspapers, famous for her acting and writing. During her lifetime she was known as "the English Sappho". She earned her nickname "Perdita" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale) in 1779, and was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales.