George II acceded to the British throne in 1727, though he was German. He was not a popular king.
When he was only a prince, he quarreled with his father and most of his advisers, and he is even said to have hated his own son.
He disliked Britain and spent so much time back in his native Germany that his subjects called him “the king who wasn’t there.”
He did love his wife, though.
He never remarried after she died, and after his own death, he was buried next to his wife, and the sides of their coffins were removed so that their remains could “mingle.”
Despite his curmudgeonly nature, however, George II lived to a ripe old age.
Finally, not long before his 77th birthday, the king, while paying a visit to the little king’s room, died quietly of an aortic dissection sitting on his commode, or “close stool,” as it was termed (“stool” being the operative word).