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DescriptionPeter the Wild Boy.jpg
English: Peter the Wild Boy (fl. 1725 to February 1785) was a mentally handicapped boy from Hannover in northern Germany who was adopted for a time by George I of England. Detail of a court painting by William Kent in Kensington Palace.
Detail of a painting by William Kent (1685-1748) of King George I’s court on the east wall of the King’s Staircase at Kensington Palace.
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