Why We're Wrong About George III
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Nature of Kingship in Late Eighteenth Century Britain by an Active, Intelligent Man
He very much saw himself as being a constitutional monarch and ing. Obviously, the constitution gave him wide powers, and he exercised them but he wasn't trying to extend those powers. He was not personally a bigot. He was the first king to stay with catholics in their houses. He spoke positively about the jesuits during the french revolution. But again, william pitt the younger in 18 o one, didn't have even the majority of his cabinet in support of that. I suspect it was a way for him to get out of politics after 17 years of extremely exhausting, hard work where his health was broken and so on.
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