![]() ![]() Roberts’s riposte to these and similar denunciations is a stark rebuttal: ‘every single word quoted above about George III is completely wrong.’ No prisoners are taken, as one detractor after another is skewered: Whig and Tory, left and right, British and American. The scene is set with a ripe selection of damning verdicts on King George, featuring everyone from Thomas Jefferson to Lin-Manuel Miranda (creator of the musical Hamilton), the most witty being E C Bentley’s clerihew ‘George the Third/Should never have occurred,/One can only wonder/At so grotesque a blunder’ and the most ignorant being J H Plumb’s equation of him with King John as ‘one of England’s most disastrous kings’. Now, thirty years after the premiere of Bennett’s play, George may become Britain’s best-understood monarch, thanks to this impressive new biography. ![]() A smash hit with public and critics alike, the film garnered a sheaf of awards, including an Oscar and three Oscar nominations. ![]() I f George III is Britain’s most misunderstood monarch, he is also one of the best known, thanks to Alan Bennett’s play The Madness of George III, which served as the basis for Nicholas Hytner’s much better film adaptation (titled The Madness of King George, allegedly to reassure any Americans fearing they might have missed two prequels). ![]()
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