Hello, and welcome to Dance Snow's History.

Recently on this podcast, we've been talking about the reputation of Richard III.

Does he deserve that reputation as Britain's most dastardly king?

Today we're dealing with another perhaps falsely maligned man.

In fact, I think probably the most underrated monarch in British history.

Here's George III, who ruled for an extraordinary period in the second half of the 18th century

and into the early 19th century, presiding over a period of revolutionary change of political

upheaval of gigantic war out of scientific, technological and industrial revolution.

He's now famous though for being mad.

Is that fair?

Well, there's a big new biography about by Andrew Roberts, whose famous fears work on Churchill.

He's written all sorts of other biographies, all sorts of other wonderful people in different

periods.

And he spent a lockdown writing a ginormous biography of George III.

So I went to Andrew Roberts' house, I hung out with him, and we could talk about George

in so many different ways, so I wanted to focus it on the fact that George III is famously

the focus of the whole declaration of independence, basically.

He gets a massive document slagging him off.

And so we did a little trick, a little party trick where Andrew Roberts went through all

the clauses of declaration of dependence and explained why most of it is complete nonsense.

Thomas Jefferson, I mean great propagandist, tell me you're wrong.

The great writer of all time, great thinker, pretty useful president, but the declaration

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