George III: The Life Reign of Britains Most Misunderstood Monarch Andrew Roberts

Our guest on this week s, SWYSI is renowned historian biographer Andrew Roberts, author of a criticallyacclaimed new biography of King George III. Britain s longestreigning king, George III has gone down in history as the cruellest tyrant of this age (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king Lecky, nineteenth century), one of England s most disastrous kings Plumb, twentieth century) and as the pompous monarch of the musical Hamilton (twentyfirst century). Andrew Roberts s magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. 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 eighteenthcentury politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. He was a devoted husband and family man, a great