Why We're Wrong About George III
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What About the Regency Crisis?
How did george's personality, buld also his infirmities, transition the monarchy into that more constitutional monarch that we end up with? Ye, it did help a lot in that process. The king allowed his lord chancellor, thurlow, to be dismissed. And as he was simply not there, of course, in the last ten years, the prince regent grew up as a whig and very much was pro charles james fox. So that also led to constitutional developments. What about the regency crisis that veone talked about? In the 17 80 this must have been sat von quanaflas. There was a precedent for a quite mad king. How
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