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An edited selection of the correspondence of King George III of England (1738-1820), with modern punctuation and spelling. "A considerable number of the letters in this selection have never been printed before (namely most of those from British Museum manuscripts, and some of those from the Chatham Papers) and the great majority of these are in the King's own hand ... The most important sources ... tapped for unpublished letters ... are P.R.O., Chatham...

A biography of George the Third, King of Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution.

Renowned historian Christopher Hibbert offers an accessible and enlightening portrait of George III, one of England most misunderstood monarchs. George III is most often remembered as the tyrant who taxed American colonists into a revolution. In recent years he has been portrayed in film as a madman clad in a nightshirt running through the halls of his palace. Neither view captures the life of a man who held the throne during a time when the absolute...