Housemartins

Housemartins have been nesting under our eaves.
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An antislavery campaign, 1792

In this cartoon of 1792, James Gillray imagines George III and the royal family joining the boycott of slave-grown sugar by drinking their tea without sugar. King George declares it "Delicious!" and Queen Charlotte urges her daughters to remember the "poor blackamoors", and "Above all, remember how much expense it will save your poor Papa!" The princesses do not look convinced.
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Gillray seldom lost an opportunity to ridicule the royal family: invariably portraying George III as ludicrously mean and penny-pinching, Queen Charlotte as grotsquely ugly, and the Prince of Wales as a lecherous glutton. How very different from most media coverage today!