George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch
Allen Lane £35
In a brief introduction, Andrew Roberts lists those against whom this superb royal biography is pitched.
They range from the 18th-century radical Thomas Paine to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer of the hit musical Hamilton, via a host of Whig, Whiggish, or otherwise unsympathetic, 19th- and 20th-century historians and biographers.
For all these, George III was either a brutal tyrant or an incompetent
