George III: the tyrant who lost America?
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George the Third Was a Terribly Nasty Piece of Work
All those hanoverians were, weren't they? To a degree, actually, george the third himself loved his father. And and frederick loved him. But they were pretty much the exception. Otherwise, every generation of hanoverian pretty much hates te their parents. He could spend something like a quarter of the british g d p, the same amount we were spending on the royal navy, was being spent by george the fourth on on furniture and carriages and er i, dono, chinoiseri.
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