{"id":59455,"date":"2022-06-28T18:19:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=59455"},"modified":"2022-06-28T18:20:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:20:27","slug":"george-iii-slandered-history","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/george-iii-slandered-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News \u2014 A 200-Year Smear Campaign And The Lies Behind ‘Hamilton’: How George III Has Been Slandered By History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He\u2019s been ridiculed throughout history as the \u201cmad King who lost America\u201d \u2013 and lampooned in the Broadway blockbuster <\/span>Hamilton<\/em><\/span>, as a camp, bloodthirsty idiot \u2013 but according to revelations in a new podcast, not only was <\/span>King George III<\/strong><\/span> one of Britain\u2019s most popular and successful monarchs, but the version of history we\u2019ve been taught for generations is \u201ccompletely factually <\/span>incorrect in every way<\/span><\/a>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This is according to historian and author <\/span>Andrew Roberts<\/strong><\/span>, who <\/span>tells the host of<\/span><\/a> “<\/span>The Firm: Blood, Lies and Royal Succession”<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that <\/span>Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s smash musical is simply the latest example of a 200-year smear campaign against the British monarch.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge III was a person who I think has been completely <\/span>misunderstood by history<\/span><\/a>,\u201d he explains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn that show [<\/span>Hamilton<\/em><\/span>] he’s made out to be a camp sadistic, prancing, slightly idiotic figure who sings songs about how he wants to kill American families in order to remind them of his love. It’s a very funny production and I do enjoy it and I tapped my foot along with the rest of them and the songs are very catchy. <\/span>But historically<\/span><\/a>, it is completely and utterly false in every possible way. He was none of the things that I’ve just mentioned. I mean, it’s a very amusing, charming portrayal in an amusing charming musical, but it’s completely factually incorrect in every way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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But if taking aim at the record-breaking 11-time Tony Award-winning production seems a controversial stance to take, Roberts is not finished there: According to him, the very document from which American democracy is founded is also guilty of spreading lies about the king. \u201cThe Declaration of Independence makes some 28 charges against him, 26 of which I believe to be rubbish,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou got a set of historians who try to make him out to be a dictator essentially \u2014 this whole idea by <\/span>Thomas Jefferson<\/strong><\/span>, who in the Declaration of Independence said that, \u2018He was unfit to be the ruler of a free people.\u2019 And so very sadly, he’s had a terrible reputation historically and that’s why for the last 200 years or so, people have considered quite wrongly, that he was a despot or a tyrant and it simply was not the case.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The extraordinary charges come in Episode 3 of “The Firm: Blood, Lies and Royal Succession,” titled \u201c<\/span>The Madness of George III<\/strong><\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In the podcast series, <\/span>historians, biographers<\/span><\/a> and royal experts examine a new historical scandal every week in an attempt to uncover the truth behind the official establishment spin. <\/span>Previous episodes have exposed the real relationship<\/span><\/a> between<\/span><\/a> Prince Andrew<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and billionaire pedophile <\/span>Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong><\/span>, and <\/span>debunked the myth of <\/span>Queen Elizabeth I<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Britain\u2019s so-called \u201cVirgin Queen.” The podcast has already drawn comparisons to the Netflix series <\/span>The Crown<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

George III ruled the British Empire for 60 years between 1760 and 1820, but it <\/span>was during his reign<\/span><\/a> that the British colonies in America broke away and drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The result was eight years of bitter fighting, before the British conceded defeat and <\/span>George Washington<\/strong><\/span> was sworn in as the first U.S. President in 1789.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to <\/span>Thomas-Mace-Archer-Mills<\/strong><\/span>, founder of the British Monarchist Society, even Washington himself was guilty of exploiting \u201cfake news\u201d against the king for his own ends.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou need that villain to actually justify why things were done, the <\/span>way they were done<\/span><\/a>,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd the American revolution didn’t have to be what it was. It didn’t have to turn out that way. General George Washington, his issue, the reason he was so involved in going against the British, is that he, being British, didn’t get what he wanted. He wanted to be British gentleman’s officer. He was never given that ability. So he was angry with his own people because he didn’t get what he wanted. George Washington is a character here who was very happy to be British until it didn’t suit him and his agenda anymore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Both historians also explain that, although the Founding Fathers\u2019 compelling use of fake news against George III might have worked in America, back in Britain George was \u201cloved and revered.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was in fact, an enlightened monarch,\u201d says Roberts, author of <\/span>The Last King of America, The Misunderstood Reign Of George III<\/em><\/span>. \u201cHe was a Renaissance Prince in many ways. He was somebody who took his benevolent duties as a <\/span>Monarch extremely seriously<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the man who created the Royal Academy of Arts, he collected over half of the Royal Collection, which is the largest art collection in the world today in private hands. He built up the Center of the British Library, the nucleus of it today is the 80,000 books that he built up in his library. The Science Museum today has the largest collection of the scientific instruments in the world that he built up, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe planet Uranus was named after him. It originally was called <\/span>George’s Star after him<\/span><\/a> because he helped <\/span>Sir William Herschel<\/strong><\/span> and he built the largest telescope in the world. [The composer] <\/span>Handel<\/strong><\/span> said of him that, \u2018While that young man lives, my music will never need a champion.\u2019 He was able to speak four languages, he played four instruments. He was so much more than the kind of babbling idiot that you get in almost all of the representations of him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mace-Archer-Mills adds, \u201cIn the United Kingdom he was <\/span>so loved and revered<\/span><\/a>. He was known as the ‘Farmer King.’ He would go out and talk to people in their farms and ask them about growing their crops. And he shared a love of the people and the land. So it was confusing for him to say, well, on this hand, I’m loved here on this side of the Atlantic, but I’m absolutely hated amongst my subjects on the other side of the Atlantic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

George III ended his life the victim of a disease that gradually robbed him of his mental faculties. And Roberts believes that it is this affliction that has been seized upon by the fake news propogandists to perpetuate a 200-year slander <\/span>against the king<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some books that are still published in America that essentially made him out to be a congenital idiot and he’s called unintelligent and stupid and all that kind of stuff. You don’t set up the Royal Academy if you are a congenital idiot. You don’t do all of those other things that I mentioned, if you are stupid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen and subscribe to “The Firm: Blood, Lies and Royal Succession” below!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26633,"featured_media":59458,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[2006],"yoast_head":"\nHow George III Has Been Slandered By History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here's how George III has been slandered by history \u2014 get details.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/george-iii-slandered-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fake News \u2014 A 200-Year Smear Campaign And The Lies Behind 'Hamilton': How George III Has Been Slandered By History\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here's how George III has been slandered by history \u2014 get 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