A thief was reluctantly obliged to relieve King George II of his valuables.
In addition to playing cricket for the MCC, Charles Greville kept a diary. When it came out in 1874, it drew alarm and outrage from the highest in the land, but the public loved it, not for any salacious gossip (which Greville shunned) but for the intimate insight into English society and policy that each scene gave them. This anecdote of George II is as curious as any.