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There are some redeeming qualities about George III. He loved his wife and was always faithful to her.\u00a0She bore fifteen children.\u00a0 This was possible because she was only 17 years old when they married.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Wanting his love, Charlotte, to have a special place to live, he bought Buckingham House, a large townhouse, which became Buckingham Palace, a palace for the queen! She had her private potter–Josiah Wedgwood. I have always loved and appreciate Wedgwood pottery myself. I didn’t know the queen loved it too! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As far as politics went, George III was a conservative. He worked to pay all the debts. Why not? He owned the colonies. He had a fine library which included a rare map collection, and he tested his doctor before surgery by having a drink of brandy with him. The doctor poured the brandy with a steady hand; thus, he could wield the knife! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
George III loved and admired George Frederick Handel, the fabulous German composer, so much so that he brought him to England. If you read a biography of Handel, you\u2019ll find that he lived a large portion of his life in England. Why? Because George insisted that he move there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Handel wrote an opera for the king.\u00a0The king didn’t like it, so he ordered Handel back to Germany.\u00a0It\u2019s here when the Irish stepped in.\u00a0 “Handel, come to Ireland!”\u00a0 He did, and in an apartment in\u00a0Dublin, in thirty days, he wrote The Messiah<\/em>!!\u00a0\u00a0(When I toured Dublin, the guide pointed out the apartment where Handel lived while writing the magnificent oratorio.) The Irish were\u00a0the first to hear this piece and praised it so much that King George demanded that it be played for him.\u00a0The story goes that he was so moved by the Hallelujah Chorus,\u00a0he stood up, and to this day the audience rises as the king did at the first, \u201cHallelujah!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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King George also had Bach come to the palace.\u00a0No doubt, the king loved music.\u00a0 He played the flute, and after he lost his mind, he spent many hours\u00a0playing flute–mournful melodies. Yes, the king had some good qualities\u2014very different from his son (George IV), who was unfaithful to his wife and who drank a lot. George IV had the nerve to haul in another woman and declare her the queen. This wasn’t acceptable, but she stayed a while anyway. Americans didn’t pay much attention to George IV.\u00a0 We were too busy becoming a great nation. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
King George III is identified in the title of a new book by Andrew Roberts as \u2018the last king of America\u2019, and this he was!\u00a0 He has always been considered a loser, and rightly so in that he lost the colonies and then later lost his mind! But, Roberts sets out to redeem George in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,101,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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