George III

The Times Book of the Year

*Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, 2022*
*Winner of the General Society of Colonial Wars'' Distinguished Book Award, 2021*
*Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year, 2022*
*Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, 2021*

Andrew Roberts, one of Britain''s premier historians, overturns the received wisdom on George III

George III, Britain''s longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ''the cruellest tyrant of this age'' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), ''a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king'' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth century), ''one of England''s most disastrous kings'' (J.H. Plumb, twentieth century) and as the pompous monarch of the musical Hamilton (twenty-first century).

Andrew Roberts''s magnificent new biography takes entir