Kate Maltby Kate Maltby

Has George III been seriously maligned?

It wasn’t his ‘tyranny’ that led to the loss of American colonies but his gentleness and toleration. And his ‘madness’ was bipolarity, Andrew Roberts argues

Portrait of George III by Thomas Gainsborough, 1785. [Alamy]

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