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Article: 'Mad' king was misunderstood, Prince Charles tells TV show
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- January 27, 2004
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
01-27-2004
'Mad' king was misunderstood, Prince Charles tells TV show
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 01-27-2004, Tuesday
Section: NEWS
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LONDON - Prince Charles is defending his ancestor, King George III, widely - if wrongly - regarded as the "mad" monarch who lost Britain its American colonies.
Interviewed for a TV documentary - excerpts were released Monday - Charles said George III might have calmed American revolutionaries bent on severing ties with Britain if a royal visit across the Atlantic had been possible in 1776, the year the 13 colonies declared independence.
George's illness, now ...