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Has George III been seriously maligned?

Americans regard George III as a power-crazed petty tyrant – but he was the very opposite, says Kate Maltby

23 October 2021

9:00 AM

23 October 2021

9:00 AM

George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch Andrew Roberts

Allen Lane, pp.784, 25

Every British historian has a story about the witlessness of Americans when it comes to our Georgian kings. The fate of Alan Bennett’s play The Madness of George III is notorious — Hollywood turned it into a film entitled The Madness of King George, in part lest American audiences assume it a tertiary sequel to The Madness of George I.

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