During the period when the French Revolution was to shake Europe, he had found a convenient bolt-hole in the pleasant atmosphere of the warm sea breezes and far from the disapproving eye of his father, George Ⅲ.
他與保守拘謹的父王喬治三世頗不投機，鄰國的法國大革命風雨欲來，而布萊頓明亮的空氣，溫柔的海風，正足以暫忘一切負擔。天高皇帝遠，情竇初開的王子也和他聲名狼藉的皇叔邱伯南公爵學得了一手偷嘗禁果的本事。