Simon Prebble
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Renowned historian Christopher Hibbert offers an accessible and enlightening portrait of George III, one of England most misunderstood monarchs. George III is most often remembered as the tyrant who taxed American colonists into a revolution. In recent years he has been portrayed in film as a madman clad in a nightshirt running through the halls of his palace. Neither view captures the life of a man who held the throne during a time when the absolute...