![]() The British were always worried about encroachments by the French into Canada and the West Indies, the ‘sugar islands’, as they were called, so there were global issues involved. It seems incredible now to think that a small island nation could regard a dynamic and fast expanding land thousands of miles away as a colony owing allegiance to the king but that’s not the way it looked then. He considered the British constitution to be a beautiful thing and ruled always as a constitutional monarch, while making his views clear to his ministers. He was pious and took his coronation oath very seriously. George was the only Hanoverian king to be happily married and was a loving father to his many children, although he got little gratitude for it. I’m not qualified to review the book because it’s not my period, so I’m just jotting down a few things about it which interested me. ![]() Roberts does not write bad books the amount of research in this long book is phenomenal. ![]() It’s misguided, in my opinion, to dismiss a writer because you disagree with his or her politics and assume that they must write bad books. ![]() As he quotes another historian saying, British history is mainly Tory but has been written by Whigs. ![]() Roberts is a self-confessed ‘Thatcherite Conservative’, when most historians are left wing. George III: Farmer George the king who lost America the mad king.Īs Andrew Roberts shows, there was a lot more to George III than that. ![]()
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