ABSTRACT
Over the course of M. Dorothy George III's reign, caricatures indicate that the public's view of the British polity changed dramatically. In some respects, the connection between royal ceremony and morality mirrored the emerging Romantic ideas about beauty and truth. Both the French royal family and the aristocracy had been charged with immorality, and radicals were making similar charges in Britain. The desire for royal morality and regal behavior had motivated many of those who supported the queen, which made it imperative that they chastise her for unseemly behavior once the king had been defeated. The agitation was an expression of the growing demand for a royal morality more in keeping with that of the public's standards, and an expression of the demand for political morality in the form of impartially administered justice.
