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Beatrice Knight’s compendium documents popular colors used when this ruler first gained power, including Dust of Ruins and Pomona Green. This ruler’s landmark visit to Edinburgh influenced fashion’s “Great Tartan Revival.” In the satirical etching Modesty!, several men in a Genoa theater gaze up disapprovingly at this ruler’s wife, who is seated next to her longtime secretary Bartolomeo (10[1])Pergami. Former American slave Bill Richmond appeared at this ruler’s coronation due to his celebrity (10[1])status as a bare-knuckle boxer. A strict social order known as the “ton” proliferated (10[1])under this “first gentleman,” who commissioned an Indo-Saracenic seaside (10[1])pavilion (-5[1])in Brighton. (10[2])This ruler (10[1])failed to pass the Pains and Penalties Bill to divorce (10[1])his wife, Caroline of Brunswick. (10[1])For 10 points, name this heirless (-5[1])Hanoverian monarch (-5[2])who acted as his father’s (10[1])regent (10[4])from (10[1])1811 to 1820. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[3])

ANSWER: George IV [or George Augustus Frederick; prompt on Prince George; prompt on the Prince Regent until “regent” is read]
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