Was King George III slandered by historians? A biographer thinks so.
by Steve Donoghue
Feb 08, 2022
2 minutes
Can the reputation of Britain’s King George III be rehabilitated after centuries of vilification? In “The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III,” author Andrew Roberts calls him “the most unfairly traduced sovereign in the long history of the British monarchy,” and he sets out to prove it.
Roberts is in familiar contrarian territory. His earlier book “Napoleon: A Life” portrayed Bonaparte as the living
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