George II and his ministers are seen…

George II and his ministers are seen in Britain as having conducted the war and the peace to the best advantage of Brunswick-Lüneburg (of which George is Elector) rather than Britain, and the main British celebrations of the peace are not held until six months later, with a fireworks display in Green Park for which Handel writes his Music for the Royal Fireworks.

The celebration is deliberately held near the royal residence of St James's Palace so as to present the king in a better light, as a British king and the prime mover in a peace that is successful for Britain. (The display proves less successful than the music, as the enormous wood building from which the fireworks were to be launched catches fire due to the fall of the bas relief of George II).

George and Britain gain from the treaty in one respect: that one clause of it had finally compelled the French to recognize the Hanoverian succession to the British throne and expel the Jacobites from France.