![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was a devoted husband and family man, a great patron of the arts and sciences, keen to advance Britain’s agricultural capacity (‘Farmer George’) and determined that her horizons should be global. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. Andrew Roberts’s new biography takes entirely the opposite view. George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ‘the cruellest tyrant of this age’. Subscribe to the Dublin Festival of History Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or your preferred platform. ![]()
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