George III: the tyrant who lost America?
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How Much Power Did a Monarch Have?
George III was the first monarch after a hundred years to not go along with the whig oligarchy that had ruled britain for the full am century. He only actually sacked one sitting ministry that the house of commons supported, and that was because the whigs were trying to nationalize the e east india company. How much power did a monarch have in eighteenth century britan ia? We know now what are monarchs have very little power. 250 years earlier, they had a huge amount of power. Where does george the third sit in that scale?
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