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Andrew roberts king george5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Roberts explains how he conducted his research: “Since 2015 The Queen has put some 200,000 pages of The Georgian Papers Programme online. He later commented: “She was interested in music and reading, and she comes over as a much more engaged figure and completely different to the one portrayed in Bridgerton.” It was a loving and happy marriage until this dreadful disease killed it off”, he says. Roberts’ research has also uncovered new fact about his wife Queen Charlotte, to whom he was lovingly and faithfully married, and had 15 children with, 13 of whom survived: “She was a fine Queen, and a very good woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Roberts says George’s mental illness, for which he received cruel treatments, would be recognised today as bipolar disorder, not porphyria, and that he should have been more sympathetically attended to. Indeed Hytner’s 1994 film received serval Oscars. The playwright Alan Bennett and the film and theatre director Nicholas Hytner also found George III to be good copy. It is said to be the most important, well-researched and sensitive fresh study of any British monarch in the last 50 years. Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 18:03 | Recorded on ĭescribed as a provocative and hugely detailed reconsideration of George III – who had the longest reign of any King of England – “myths” about his mental health and how he supposedly “lost” America are still referenced today. ![]()
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