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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] 
issue 23 October 2021

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

    Andrew Roberts

    Allen Lane, pp. 784, £25

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