George IV exhibition shows redeemable qualities of 'exuberant king'

Monarch drank and gambled, but also commissioned ‘extraordinary art’He was a king who spent outrageously, drank and ate too much, womanised and gambled, but George IV was perhaps not as dim, uncultured or physically repulsive as he is often made out.An exhibition opening at Buckingham Palace on Friday is not trying to repair the reputation of a man they bill as Britain’s “exuberant king”, but it does argue he had many redeemable qualities. Related: Letters shed ligh