What a minister needed to succeed in a political career was, therefore, not the confidence of the House of Commons but the confidence of the king.
How Eighteenth-Century Governments Worked | Stephen Basdeo
A Revolutionary Aristocrat: Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond | Stephen Basdeo
Universal suffrage was not achieved in England until 1918. However, a century-and-a-half before, one brave aristocrat proposed that all men have the right to vote. And he proposed this in the House of Lords of all places!