Narrated by Simon Prebble

Renowned historian Christopher Hibbert offers an accessible and enlightening portrait of George III, one of England most misunderstood monarchs. George III is most often remembered as the tyrant who taxed American colonists into a revolution. In recent years he has been portrayed in film as a madman clad in a nightshirt running through the halls of his palace. Neither view captures the life of a man who held the throne during a time when the absolute right of a ruler was being called into question. The portrait that emerges here is of a shy, unassuming man destined to be king. A dedicated patron of the arts, he was a devoted family man who tragically suffered from a debilitating hereditary disease. Christopher Hibbert has written a sympathetic yet balanced biography that reads like a novel. The combination of his prose and Simon Prebble's excellent narration will transport listeners into the life and times of George III

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