King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child. A disobedient child, of course, must be punished.

His son George acted as Prince Regent during the years of his incapacity. George III and Queen Charlotte were crowned in the Abbey on 22nd September 1761. They came from St James's Palace to ...

Roberts’s new book is The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, a biography of the monarch who led England during the American Revolution and who has been made into ...