WHAT IF... GEORGE III HADN’T ‘LOST’ THE COLONIES?

There is a school of thought that winning the American Revolutionary War would have actually been bad for Britain. At risk of a renewal of hostilities by a resentful American population still seeking their independence, the British may have been compelled to maintain a large and costly presence in the colonies; rather than building a trading relationship with the United States, the empire would have been burdened with the expense of keeping control.

Professor Andrew Roberts, historian, journalist and author of , envisages a different scenario, however, where many Americans