In Bridgerton, King George III only appears briefly because ... Due to the severity of George’s mental illness, the couple ...

George was the eldest son of ... Early in 1764 he suffered the first sign of the mental illness which affected him during several years of his reign. The loss of the American colonies was a great blow ...

Britain’s royal family is always in the public eye, their every move documented by reporters and captured for posterity by ...

King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child. A disobedient child, of course, must be punished.