A well written and detailed account of the life of King George III, without many of the preconceptions found in other books. Here, thanks largely to excellent research and the newly release Georgian Papers, myths of the King are demolished and we find a man devoted to the constitution and religion he swore to uphold and protect. A loving father and husband whose sons were a constant disappointment, a frugal man who tried to draw on skilled minds from both Whigs and Tories and was often best known today for the “madness” he suffered, but even that is looked at in new light and re-examined here. Overall an excellent book, well written and very well researched, I was glad to read such an excellent biography with modern research into newly released papers but without modern judgement on a man very much of his time.

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