Final Days of George III

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

History Hit

Myths, Folklore, Mystery, History, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Murder, Ufos, True Crime, Paranormal, Supernatural, Serial Killers

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

How did George III die? Was it raving in a straightjacket? Who stayed with him at the end of his long illness? Today we uncover the truth about George III, the man unfairly remembered as the mad King who lost America.

Produced by Freddy Chick. Edited by Tomos Delargy. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.

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0:27.5	Hello and welcome to AfterDarg. I'm Maddie.
0:28.4	And I'm Anthony.
0:33.0	And in this episode, we are going to be looking at the final days of a king known as the Mad King and the monarch who lost America.
0:36.0	It is George III here to set the scene. Anthony, take it away.
0:46.3	George III is in his apartments at Windsor Castle, overlooking the North Terrace,
0:51.2	where he and his family once spent happier times.
0:54.9	The king is 81 years old.
0:57.5	He has been wheeled to his harps chord for the last time, where he now sits and plays.
1:02.4	If we can call it playing.
1:03.8	It is more a determined mangling of notes in truth, for he is now blind and almost completely deaf.
1:11.3	This isn't the George III you might know, the punching, biting, screaming, bleeding,
1:17.7	king frothing at the mouth as he raves through the night.
1:21.1	Nor is it George, the despotic last king of America, a vestige of the old world,
1:26.2	even as the new one takes ever greater strides towards
1:29.2	modernity and the promise of a fairer, more democratic form of government that shirks foibles
1:35.1	like crowns and sceptors and ermine robes. No. Instead, here is a monarch bent low before death,
1:42.6	waiting to be summoned from his gilded surroundings
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