![]() ![]() The central theme throughout The Last King of America is that George ruled as a constitutional monarch and was far from being a despot or tyrant bent on restoring royal power. ![]() Rather than being the “royal brute of Great Britain,” as claimed by Thomas Paine, Roberts concludes that George was “well-meaning, hard-working, decent, dutiful, moral, cultured and kind” and loyal to the British constitution. During George’s 60 year reign from 1760 to 1820 the King’s many British and American critics attacked him as a villain and “ruthless despot” and assailed him for “his supposed lack of intelligence.” Charges which have been repeated many times since by historians and, as Roberts notes, on the stage in Hamilton: An American Musical. Andrew Roberts’ latest book, The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, is a revisionist account that seeks to redeem the much-slandered and maligned reputation of the “mad” and supposedly tyrannical king who lost America. ![]()
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