alan bennett the madness of king george iii

So supportive was he, that Pitt would reciprocate. George was able to support the wise government (to 1789 anyway) of William Pitt the Younger. Prinny's gambling and drinking debts also annoyed the King. The King was a good Tory - he never realized that Prinny's politics were a way of annoying him, and Prinny was even more reactionary than the King was. He also disliked Prinny's support of Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Sheridan (and sometimes Edmund Burke). As head of the Church of England, George III resented this act. It was actually known by King George III that Prinny had an illegal marriage with Mrs. Fitzherbert, a popular actress who happened to be Catholic. His son, known as Florizel or 'Prinny', had a long standing relationship with Mrs. Frederick died prematurely in 1758, so his son George III succeeded in 1760. George II was hated by his son, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and kicked the son out of the royal palace. George I was hated by George II because the former had imprisoned his wife (George II's mother) for life for infidelity (see SARABAND FOR DEAD LOVERS). The German Georges had a tradition of hatred between the Kings and their sons and heirs. Clarke, sold army commissions 'in the name of the Duke of York' to undeserving men). But his sons were disappointments (the best one, Frederick, Duke of York, was a second-rate army commander who got involved in a scandal when his mistress, Mrs. He and his wife Charlotte had seven sons and six daughters. George III was a good, but strict family man. But he never really fully accepted it, and in his last decade the two countries fought a second war (the War of 1812). He was talked out of it, and eventually faced up to accepting the papers of the new Minister from the United States, Mr. Once it was obvious that they had won on the battlefield, George offered to abdicate.

Actually he was a conscientious supporter of the British Constitution, but he believed the colonists were disobedient children who should have been punished for their own good. It was while he was ruling Great Britain that the American Revolution occurred, the French Revolution occurred, Napoleon rose and fell, and the industrial revolution hit Western Europe and the Americas. He was George III (reigned 1760 - 1820 - the last nine years incapacitated by insanity and blindness).

And he was actually a hard working monarch, wrong headed at times, who had the longest reign (for any monarch - until Queen Victoria) in English history. He was our last King, and the one we are raised to hate the memory of.

Alan bennett the madness of king george iii