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The Regency period in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 is the period between 1811 and 1820, when King George III
George III of the United Kingdom

George III was Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death....
 was deemed unfit to rule and his son, later George IV
George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV was the king of Kingdom of Hanover and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the death of his father, George III of the United Kingdom, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later....
, was instated to be his proxy
Regent

A regent, from the Latin regens "reigning", is a person selected to act as head of state because the ruler is a minor, not present or debilitated....
 as Prince Regent
Prince Regent

A prince regent is a prince who rules a monarchy as Regent instead of a Monarch, e.g., due to the Sovereign's incapacity or absence .While the term itself can have the generic meaning and refer to any prince who fills the role of regent, historically it has mainly been used to describe a small number of individual Princes who were Regents....
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George IV
George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV was the king of Kingdom of Hanover and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the death of his father, George III of the United Kingdom, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later....
 while Prince Regent by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Thomas Lawrence (painter)

Sir Thomas Lawrence Royal Academy , was a notable England Painting, mostly of portraits.He was born in Bristol. His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age of six Lawrence was already being shown off to the guests of the Bear as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim sp...
. 1811–1820
Preceded by Georgian era
Georgian era

The Georgian era is a period of British history, normally defined as including the reigns of the kings George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom and George IV of the United Kingdom, i.e....
Followed by Victorian era
Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....


The Regency period in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 is the period between 1811 and 1820, when King George III
George III of the United Kingdom

George III was Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death....
 was deemed unfit to rule and his son, later George IV
George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV was the king of Kingdom of Hanover and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the death of his father, George III of the United Kingdom, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later....
, was instated to be his proxy
Regent

A regent, from the Latin regens "reigning", is a person selected to act as head of state because the ruler is a minor, not present or debilitated....
 as Prince Regent
Prince Regent

A prince regent is a prince who rules a monarchy as Regent instead of a Monarch, e.g., due to the Sovereign's incapacity or absence .While the term itself can have the generic meaning and refer to any prince who fills the role of regent, historically it has mainly been used to describe a small number of individual Princes who were Regents....
. The term is often expanded to apply to the years between 1795 and 1837, a time characterised by distinctive fashions, politics and culture. In this sense, it can be considered to be a transitional period between "Georgian
Georgian era

The Georgian era is a period of British history, normally defined as including the reigns of the kings George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom and George IV of the United Kingdom, i.e....
" and "Victorian
Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....
" eras. The era was distinctive for its architecture, literature, fashions, and politics. It was a period of excess for the aristocracy: for example, it was during this time that the Prince Regent built the Brighton Pavilion. However, it was also an era of uncertainty caused by, among other things, the Napoleonic wars
Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon I of France First French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815....
, periodic riot
Riot

A riot is a form of civil disorder characterized by disorganized groups lashing out in a sudden and intense rash of violence, vandalism or other crime....
s, and the concern — threat to some, hope to others — that the British people might imitate the upheavals of the French Revolution
French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudalism for the aristocracy and Roman Catholic Church clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Age of Enlightenment principles of cit...
.

The term is sometimes used in various ways to include years surrounding the decade of the formal regency. If "Regency" is considered to be transitional between "Georgian
Georgian era

The Georgian era is a period of British history, normally defined as including the reigns of the kings George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom and George IV of the United Kingdom, i.e....
" and "Victorian
Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....
" then it would refer to the entire period from approximately 1811 until the accession of Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria was from 20 June 1837 the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India of the British Raj until her death....
, encompassing the actual period of Regency, along with George IV's reign in his own right and that of his brother William IV
William IV of the United Kingdom

William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Kingdom of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death. William, the third son of George III of the United Kingdom and younger brother and successor to George IV of the United Kingdom, was the last king and penultimate monarch of the House of Hanover....
. If "Regency" is contrasted with "Eighteenth century", then it could include the whole period of the Napoleonic wars.

Artistic trends

Neckclothitania 1818
  • Regency architecture
    Regency architecture

    The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in United Kingdom during the period in the early 19th century when George IV of the United Kingdom was Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style....
  • Regency fashions
  • Regency dance
    Regency dance

    Regency dance is the term for historical dances of the period ranging roughly from 1790 to 1825. Some feel that the popular use of the term "Regency dance" is not technically correct, as the actual English Regency lasted only from 1811 until 1820....
  • Regency novel
    Regency novel

    Regency novels are either:* Fiction actually written during the Regency era - The works of Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Susan Ferrier, and Maria Edgeworth would fall into this category....
    s


Famous places

  • Almack's
    Almack's

    Almack's Assembly Rooms was one of the first clubs in London that welcomed both men and women. It was one of a limited number of upper class mixed-sex public social venues in the British capital in an era when the most important venues for the hectic social season were the grand houses of the aristocracy....
  • Brighton Pavilion
  • Carlton House
    Carlton House

    Carlton House was a mansion in London, best known as the town residence of the Prince Regent for several decades from 1783. It faced the south side of Pall Mall, London, and its gardens abutted St....
  • Brooks's
    Brooks's

    Brooks's is a London gentlemen's club, founded in 1764 by 27 men including four dukes. At an early date it was the meeting place for British Whig Party of the highest social order; it remains one of the most exclusive London Clubs....
  • White's
    White's

    White's is a London gentlemen's club, established at 4 Chesterfield Street in 1693 by Italian immigrant Francesco Bianco . Originally it was established to sell hot chocolate, a rare and expensive commodity at the time ....
  • Vauxhall Gardens
    Vauxhall Gardens

    Vauxhall Gardens /v?ks'?:l/ was a pleasure gardens, one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London, England from the mid 17th century to the mid 19th century....
  • Ranelagh Gardens
    Ranelagh Gardens

    Ranelagh Gardens were public pleasure gardens located in Chelsea, London, then just outside London, England in the eighteenth century.The Ranelagh Gardens were so called because they occupied the site of Ranelagh House, built in 1688-89 by the first Earl of Ranelagh, Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital , immediately adjoining the Hospital...
  • The Pantheon
    Pantheon, London

    The Pantheon, was a place of public entertainment on the south side of Oxford Street, London, England. It was designed by James Wyatt and opened in 1772....
  • Tattersalls
    Tattersalls

    For other uses, see Tattersall Tattersalls is the main auctioneer of race horses in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1766 by Richard Tattersall , who had been stud groom to the second Duke of Kingston....
  • Her Majesty's Theatre
  • Little Theatre, Haymarket
    Haymarket Theatre

    The Theatre Royal Haymarket or Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre is a West End theatre in The Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use....
  • Drury Lane
    Drury Lane

    Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. The northern part is in the borough of London Borough of Camden and the southern part in the City of Westminster....
  • Covent Garden
    Covent Garden

    Covent Garden is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest corner of the London Borough of Camden....
  • St George's, Hanover Square
  • Astley's Ampitheatre
  • Attingham Park Shrewsbury (National Trust)


Famous people

  • George Gordon, Lord Byron
    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron

    George Gordon Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron Royal Society was a United Kingdom poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and...
  • Jane Austen
    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen was an English novelist whose Literary realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, Burlesque , and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature....
  • Beau Brummell
    Beau Brummell

    Beau Brummell, n? George Bryan Brummell , was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent, the future George IV of the United Kingdom....
  • Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
  • Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
    Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

    Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Order of the Garter, Order of St Patrick, Order of the Bath, Royal Guelphic Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Royal Society , was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the nineteenth century....
  • Charles Lamb
  • Sarah, Countess of Jersey
    Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey

    Sarah Sophia Villiers, Countess of Jersey , was an English noblewoman, the daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland and Sarah Anne Child, only child of Robert Child, the principal shareholder in the banking firm Child & Co....
  • Lady Caroline Lamb
    Lady Caroline Lamb

    The Lady Caroline Lamb was a United Kingdom aristocrat and novelist, best known for her 1812 affair with George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron....
  • Princess Lieven
    Dorothea Lieven

    Countess, later HSH Princess Dorothea von Lieven , n?e Benckendorff , a Russian noblewoman and wife of Prince Khristofor Andreyevich Lieven, Russian ambassador to London, 1812 to 1834, was a political force in her own right....
  • Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
    Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

    Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, Countess of Blessington was an Ireland novelist.Born Margaret Power near Clonmel in County Tipperary, Ireland, she was a daughter of Edmund Power, a small landowner....
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
  • John Keats
    John Keats

    John Keats was an England poetry who became one of the principal poets of the English Romanticism movement during the early nineteenth century....
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major England Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest Lyric poetry in the English language....
  • Walter Scott
  • William Wordsworth
    William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth was a major England Romantic poetry poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romanticism in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
  • William Hazlitt
    William Hazlitt

    William Hazlitt was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. Hazlitt was a prominent English literary critic, grammarian and philosopher....
  • Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA
    Thomas Lawrence (painter)

    Sir Thomas Lawrence Royal Academy , was a notable England Painting, mostly of portraits.He was born in Bristol. His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age of six Lawrence was already being shown off to the guests of the Bear as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim sp...
  • J.M.W. Turner
  • Thomas Raikes
    Thomas Raikes (dandy)

    Thomas Raikes was a United Kingdom merchant banker, dandy and Personal journal....
  • John Nash
    John Nash (architect)

    John Nash was an Anglo-Welsh architect responsible for much of the layout of English Regency London.Born in Lambeth, London as the son of a Wales millwright, Nash trained with architect Sir Robert Taylor , but his own career was initially unsuccessful and short-lived....
  • Thomas de Quincey
    Thomas de Quincey

    Thomas de Quincey was an England author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ....
  • Emma, Lady Hamilton
    Emma, Lady Hamilton

    Emma, Lady Hamilton is best remembered as the mistress of Lord Nelson and as the muse of George Romney . She was born Emy Lyon in Ness, Cheshire near Neston, Cheshire, England, the daughter of a blacksmith, Henry Lyon, who died when she was two months old....
  • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
    Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

    Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bront?, Order of the Bath was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland flag officer famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars....


Regency Reenactment Groups

California, USA; The Bay Area English Regency Society Regency dance
Regency dance

Regency dance is the term for historical dances of the period ranging roughly from 1790 to 1825. Some feel that the popular use of the term "Regency dance" is not technically correct, as the actual English Regency lasted only from 1811 until 1820....
, Balls, Parties
California, USA; Historic Events, Dance
New York, USA; Historic Dance, Balls
Oregon, USA; Regency Dance, Balls, Parties, Readings, Teas, Gatherings, Costume Workshops
Australia; Regency Dancing, costume display, reenactment, Balls, Parties, Teas, gatherings
Arizona, USA; Regency Dance, Balls, Parties, Readings, Teas, Gatherings, Costume Workshops
Regency Dance, Balls, Parties
Historic Dance, Music, Balls, Parties
Nationwide, umbrella organization for all Regency-related groups.

See also

  • Régence
    Régence

    The R?gence is the period in History of France between 1715 and 1723, when King Louis XV of France was a minor and the land was governed by a regent, Philip II, Duke of Orl?ans, the nephew of Louis XIV of France....
    , the period of the early 18th-century regency in France.