The most unpopular politician in Queen Victoria epoch.

The token is dedicated to the coronation of Ernst August in Hanover, making him the King of Hanover.

In 1810 Ernest Augustus was severely injured by an assailant, probably his valet Sellis, who was found dead, subsequently two men were imprisoned for asserting that the duke had murdered his valet. Recovering from his wounds, the duke again proceeded to the seat of war, as a British field marshal, he was in command of the Hanoverian army during the campaigns of 1813 and 1814.

Back in England in 1815, however, the duke’s strong Toryism made him unpopular. He resented the refusal of Parliament to increase his allowance and retired for some years to Berlin. On the accession of George IV, he returned to England but he ceased to play an important part in politics after the accession of William IV in 1830.

When William died in June 1837, the crowns of Great Britain and Hanover were separated; and Ernest Augustus, as the nearest male heir of the late king, became king of Hanover. He cancelled the constitution that William had given in 1833, and the constitution that he sanctioned in 1840 was characteristic of his own illiberal ideas. His reign was a stormy one, and serious trouble between king and people had arisen when he died.