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Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize 2022 Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year 2022 Winner of the General Society of Colonial Wars' Distinguished Book Award 2021 George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ‘the cruellest tyrant of this age’ (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), ‘a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon ...
Introduction It’s ironic that Americans think King George III was mad when they’ve been going mad over the “last king of America”[1] for over 200 years. The two Thomas’ started the mania. First, Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense, published in January 1776, called George III the “Royal Brute of Britain” who had “athirst for absolute power” (1). Then, Thomas Jefferson’s ...
Nov 9, 2021 · Publication date: November 2021 Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece.
The Christian life of King George III In the popular mind George III is probably remembered for two things, the loss of America as a British colony, and the madness of his latter years. In the first he was probably the scapegoat for the failure of the British policy, while the illness of his latter years was not insanity but a hereditary
Dec 6, 2021 · In his latest work, a magnificent full-length biography of George III, historian Andrew Roberts is anything but subtle or cagey. Titling the American edition The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, Roberts argues that George is nothing less than “the most unfairly traduced sovereign in the long history of the British monarchy.”
The crown landed on the head of George I, great-grandfather to George III, after skipping over more than 50 Catholic relatives who were disinherited by the Act of Settlement of 1701. 14 George I and subsequent Hanoverian monarchs found themselves in an uncomfortable position in terms of legitimacy. Their claim to the throne relied almost exclusively on their Protestantism, so they leaned into ...
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The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III. The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his ...
