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The author sets out explicitly to rescue Britain’s third Hanoverian king from willful American ignorance - and golly, is there plenty of that around.

I have deep sympathy, therefore, with the impulse behind Andrew Roberts’s biography of George III. A few years ago I encountered a highly educated editor at a reputable American news outlet who was under the impression that George V and George VI were “Hanoverian” sovereigns, for surely they had been the son and grandson of George IV. The fate of Alan Bennett’s play The Madness of George III is notorious - Hollywood turned it into a film entitled The Madness of King George, in part lest American audiences assume it a tertiary sequel to The Madness of George I. Sign up to receive invitations to all public events.Every British historian has a story about the witlessness of Americans when it comes to the Georgian kings. He has written or edited nineteen books, which have been translated into twenty-three languages, and appears regularly on radio and television around the world. His best-selling books include George III: The Last King of America, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, Leadership in War: Lessons From Those Who Made History, Napoleon: A Life, The Storm of War, Masters and Commanders, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, Waterloo, Napoleon and Wellington, Salisbury: Victorian Titan, and Eminent Churchillians. He will also assess the present state of the US/UK Special Relationship, the outlook for American leadership on the world stage, the future of the British Monarchy, and the prospects for Great Britain in the Brexit era.Īndrew Roberts is presently the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a Visiting Professor at the War Studies Department at King’s College, London, and the Lehrman Institute Lecturer at the New York Historical Society. Please join us as distinguished historian and professor Andrew Roberts discusses his latest book, George III: The Last King of America, and his 2018 book, Churchill: Walking with Destiny.