America’s Last Monarch—George III

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Thomas Frye. His Most Sacred Majesty George III. London: H. Parker, E. Bakewell, and J. Boydell, 1762. Mezzotint engraving by William Pether. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (5)
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George III (1738—1820) of Great Britain had the misfortune to become king in 1760, shortly before the drive to revolution in his American colonies began to gather momentum.

Many historians and contemporaries have blamed the stubborn, inexperienced, and mentally unstable monarch for the repeated British miscalculations and mistakes that led to the independence of the United States. Certainly George III displayed no creativity or imagination in the formulation of policies toward the British colonies in America.