Item #63951 : Original period photography. The blind King of Hanover, George V, 1819-1878, last of the Hanoverian Kings, ruling from November 1851 to September 1866. Defeated in the 1866 War with Prussia, in spite of the victory at Langensalza, the Hanoverian army was forced to surrender against overwhelming numbers. Hanover ceased to be an independent Kingdom and was absorbed into the Prussian Empire. He died in exile in France.