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George III A Personal History

Christopher Hibbert

Viking 20 [pounds sterling] vxi + 464pp ISBN 0 670 86941 4

When George III was buried in 1820 Mrs. Arbuthnot wrote in her subsequently famous diary that there had just `sunk into an honoured grave the best man and the best king that ever adorned humanity'. Christopher Hibbert concludes his readable and sympathetic new biography with this judgement, backed by another in the same vein by Sir Nathaniel Wraxall. `Never, I believe, did any prince -- not even Elizabeth -- leave behind him a memory more cherished by his subjects.'

So much attention has been paid lately to the `madness' of ...

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