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IT IS Alan Bennett, and his “The Madness of King George”, who is to blame for the image of George III as a cartoon of inherited malady, all purple urine and verbal spasm. So Stella Tillyard’s book comes as a timely reminder that, long before the king screamed down the corridors at Windsor or chased ladies-in-waiting at Kew, he was a working monarch who steered Britain through decades of choppy waters.

Ms Tillyard’s interest, however, lies not so much with the big upsets of George’s long reign—the endless Whig infighting, economic jitteriness and, of course, the loss of America—but with a parallel set of dramas within the king’s own family. For while George was a husband and father of earnest strenuousness, the majority of his eight siblings turned out to be a giddy and ill-behaved crew.

 

http://www.economist.com/node/5436773

Nonfiction. A Royal Affair. George III and his Scandalous Siblings. By Stella Tillyard. Illustrated. 352 pages. $26.95; Random House. £20; Chatto and Windus.

It is natural enough to think of the American War of Independence not as a revolution but as a family quarrel. The colonists, like restive adolescents ready to leave home, resisted parental control.

The British, having paid for room and board, reacted with predictable outrage, and George III, to an unusual degree, tended to see all political strife as a family drama. In “A Royal Affair,” a portrait gallery of the king and his many siblings, Stella Tillyard argues that the domestic troubles of the royal family during George’s first 20 years go a long way toward explaining his inept handling of the American crisis.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/arts/28iht-bookven.4039451.html

It is natural enough to think of the American War of Independence not as a revolution but as a family quarrel. The colonists, like restive adolescents ready to leave home, resisted parental control. The British, having paid for room and board, reacted with predictable outrage, and George III, to an unusual degree, tended to see all political strife as a family drama. In “A Royal Affair,” a portrait gallery of the king and his many siblings, Stella Tillyard argues that the domestic troubles of the royal family during George’s first 20 years goes a long way toward explaining his inept handling of the American crisis.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/books/27grim.2.html?scp=1&sq=stella%20tillyard&st=cse

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