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UK Special #2 - James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave
Prime Factors - Ranking UK Prime Ministers
1 hour 12 minutes 53 seconds
1 year ago
UK Special #2 - James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave
With the collapse of the Newcastle and Devonshire governments amid failures in the Seven Years War, King George II needed a leader who could right the ship of state. Instead, he chose James Waldegrave, a man whose primary qualification was that he was the young Prince George's former babysitter. It went about as well as you'd expect.
Featuring badly sung musical numbers including "Old Sarum-Gatton-Newtown-East Looe-Dunwich-Plympton Erle" (the Rotten Boroughs Song), "A Spoonful of Corruption", and more.