The King Who Lost America | How Mad Was King George? | BBC Select
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2023
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King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) introduces this royal history documentary which looks back at the life and times of King George III.
King George III was the longest-lived and longest-reigning king in British history. But his reputation brands him a foolish, incapable madman. As this history documentary reveals, this unfair assessment overshadows his achievements and qualities as a monarch. With new revelations from diaries and letters and interviews with experts, a very different side to this remarkable ruler emerges.
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Learn kingdom's history from Etonian ❌
Learn from the King himself ✔
The Estonian?
@@erikthomsen4768Etonian, someone who went to Eton School in London.
Kings, and particularly THIS king, are not intelligent. At least the Etonians teaching history had to earn the privilege.
@@AmandititititoHM The King is incredibly well versed on matters of history and national heritage, his commitment to the understanding of the crown and to the truth of history goes far beyond that of any, Etonian or otherwise. They that were not born to Reign have learned what they know from books given to them as gospel from scholars come before them. His Majesty takes his knowledge from the guidance past down from Kings and Queens before him and from knowledge and writings that are, and ought to remain only within the Royal Family.
@@AmandititititoYou have no say on his majesty great great great great great great grandfather 😡😡😡
Charles is right.
George III had a 59 year reign - the longest of any British or English king. Such a long reign cannot easily be summed up by one event.
Among other things, George was genuinely popular in contrast to the first Georges who disliked Britain and spent most of their time in Hanover. He also had a popular touch - known as 'Farmer George' for his affinity to rural life
I'll bet the "Farmer George" nickname was one of the things that attracted King Charles to him. They have that in common.
@@CelticCarla62 she's the longest reigning monarch but the comment above was referring specifically to a king.
but how many years of his reign was he playing with a full deck?
@@purefoldnz3070 due to what is believed to have been a physical disability called "porphyria" George IIIs son, George IV acted as Prince Regent for the last 10 years of his reign.
The colonies were 3.000 miles away and revolution was in the
Air
Actually if the 13 colonies hadn't declared independance
Australia and New Zealand
Might have ended up under
French or Dutch rule!
He was a very dedicated king.
He cared for his family and country far above himself.
He showed a dedication that far outweighs any other monarch I've ever heard of.
He didn't have a great support system, was not confident in the task ahead of him, but he really seemed to give it his best relentlessly for over 40years. He was a man of high moral standards, a standard he needed from those around him, which is an extremely difficult posistion to be in when others fall short.
Its most definitely lonely at the top.
aww poor hereditary, undeserving, extremely powerful monarch :(
@@tonyisnotdead
Money and status does not protect you from health troubles. I know that myself.
@@tonyisnotdead Who told you that being a hereditary monarch is evil?
God save King George!!!
He had a 59 year reign that could not possibly be summed up by one event.
I continue to find King Charles to be highly intelligent and quite likeable.
A lot of people do, actually. Most of his criticisms are about his first marriage, that was basically arranged for him, when he was very young. I was watching a biking channel on RUclips where they were riding trails at Balmoral and the King was on one of his walks and comes up to them and has a chat about forestry, a very nice man.
Well he's Royalty he's very refined just probably not always easy to live with ridiculous expectations seemingly considering Diana and Harry lost affection for him.
@@annalisavajda252Personal relationships can bring out the worst in all of us. What matters is our relationship with society, in the present and our legacy to its future.
Royalty has no place in modern society. Their stolen wealth needs returned to the people.
Well. that is one person. I wonder what your feelings about Tsar Vladimir the flaccid might be. You do seem to be a contrarian.
George iii was a very loyal person to his wife
Something Charles cannot say is true
No he was not 😂😂😂 they just did not talk about it because it was expected
A shame Princess Diana wasn't faithful to her husband.
@@felixromano3091 they had mistresses
You realize you don’t know any celebrity/Royalty, right? They have private lives you know absolutely nothing about.
I could listen to him speak all day
🙄
“I wish I were a tampon…”
Just a minute of this? Need more please
There is a link in the description where you can view the full documentary. Though it's a year old so may not still work.
Thank you for the statement that George III was not insane!
"Sharp, sharp!
The king! The king!"
I’m sorry to rain on your parade, but George III did go mad. He supposedly had syphilis, which caused him to go insane, hence why his son, George IV was his regent
He went cray cray because of us Americans. 😁
@@alexcrawfordguitar9361 is George IV Queen Elizabeth's father?
@@michaelgraber5750 no, George VI was Elizabeth’s father. George IV was a while before
Didn't know Charles was fascinated by George III!
Nice!
As I hold a fascination for George III as well!
Nice that we share something in common
Both George III and Charles III had great interest in painting and Gardening.
Little Charles was fascinated by George III's paintings in Windsor castle archive, after that he learn about him more.
Well he should’ve stay LOYAL to his wife Diana 😂 before sticking it to Camille
@@rustygribbler1380 this video have nothing to do with saint Diana and saint Diana herself admitted that she was the 1st one who cheated in their marriage.
King George 3rd also built a huge library.
Fun fact; even though he wouldn't have been able to, King George III still proclaimed that if Napoleon were to land in Britain, he would meet him on the battlefield. Even if his body didn't let him serve his country anymore, he still wanted to do it. That included battling it you with Europe's hegemon.
What a voice ! He can read the alphabet backwards and sound brilliant!
He was dealing with the loss of his daughter, a child he loved dearly, the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and he did not lose America if anything he gained a better financial foothold in it, because the British overlords and their private companies were no longer in charge,
Well, by the time the Napoleonic wars ended, George had been consumed by his illness and wasn’t lucid enough to understand anything. The Prince of Wales was Regent by then, and George III didn’t even know that he had been made the King of Hanover. When Queen Charlotte died in 1818 he wasn’t told, because he was incapable of understanding it
The King didn't lose America. The UK ended slavery. The colonies HATED that idea. That is the REAL reason for the Revolution. The rest is just gravy! It's a truth the the American people ain't ready to grapple with yet. And we all know why! 😕
America was never his.
@@rachelkristine4669 the reason isn't because they weren't represented within government but was still forced under hte rule of the british government, but because slavery only? do you reaklly think that they would've accepted being slaves to a monarch just to keep slaves ?
在參觀Kew Palace時得知King George III病情，之後了解到Porphyria 這種病，感受到他被病患折磨的痛苦及當時處理他病情的困局，他是帶領英軍打了7年戰爭打敗法國，之後再打敗拿破崙的英雄，他愛自己的家人，正如King Charles 這裡所說，歷史應該給予KING GEORGE III更公道的評價。他身後的大英是工業革命強盛的大英，同期的乾隆已是走下坡的大清。
對，主要批評和針對喬治三世的言論在美國比較流行，因為他帶領的英國打敗了對美戰爭。
但實際上他在位時期英國正開始崛起，工業革命和領土擴張也在這段時間快速膨脹，是英國崛起時打下濃厚的基礎，對後世英國成為全球霸權有著深遠影響，還是那一句，他是有精神疾病的困擾，但絕對不是一個昏君，對當時歐洲時局很有了解
@@marcomak4964also losing America wasn’t that big of a Deal at the time Europe was 10x richer and America was almost empty. USA Territory wasn’t half of how much is Today
@@marcobelli6856 you're as nuts as georgy was! There were still many, many, many fortunes to be made in America in the 1700's! The continent, with all of its untapped resources, was burgeoning with raw wealth!
can only imagine what knowlege is kept in the royal archives and what secrets it has.
When I click the length for the full video, it says Forbidden: you do not have permission to access this video. 🤷🏼♀️
The story sounds fascinating.
You are remembered more by your failures. Than you are by your success.
I think George 3 was just upset because he lost part of his family. It had nothing to do with the now U.S. because I honestly believe that both of us were growing apart but we should have never had a war over it... History is always different than what we're told so who knows what really happened...
It was often romanticized and exaggerated.
It's okay, we don't hold it against y'all, we're besties now 🤝🥰
@@Hinata.Sakaguchi by the Americans
Well said. Your Majesty. Britain has had many a great Monarch. A few have been nightmares, but that’s human nature.
Finally, someone has spoken the truth about King George lll 🇬🇧 it makes me sad and annoyed when people mock him
GEORGE III didn’t lose America.
The colonists fought hard enough to win independence.
Yeah, so did the French who without chance of winning would've been impossible
@kravan5063 ya mother helped as well..she "wanked the yanks" 😂😂
@kravan5063 your ma helped as well, "yank wank Winnie"we called her... she was best used in between battles...
Therefore the British lost
@@kravan5063Sounds like a cope. Then you should have brought the French to your side if you didn't wanna lose 🤷♂️
George III was neither mad nor a tyrant. It was simply time for us Americans to leave the nest and become adults.
No, we Americans drove him mad.
The United Kingdom was already a constitutional monarchy, even real power and sovereignty at that time belong to the parliament.
'Become adults'. Can i watch the Trump vs Biden debate before liking this comment :D
Well he was mad but he wan’t a bad person.
@@user-ol1ib1ss2b
George III was not mad, he suffered from Porphyria. Porphyria is not a "mental illness". Porphyria is a defect in the metabolism of red blood cell molecules, responsible for transporting oxygen. One of its symptoms is suffering from hallucinations and mental confusion, among many other ailments, hence the belief, at the time, that the king was mad. Today it is a disease that can be managed with medication.
I have it as well.
No Taxation without Representation
No United States without Jewry.
Your argument is with the Parliament, not His Majesty George III.
We have it now with our dysfunctional House of Representatives.
@@Ridley369 a powerless king
In the United states we are taxed to death. Our infrastructure is shit, our roads are shit, our schools are shit. Our taxes pay the salaries of professional frauds.
Did George III lose America or rather Parliament? In the government practice at that time, it had already been established that the parliamentary majority determined the government. :)
Lost both State and Government
Well put. So many blame His Majesty, yet Parliament, itself, was the body responsible for the laws which aggravated the colonists.
@@Ridley369In all honesty, as an American...having the hindsight of the whole picture of history. The British did fight a costly war with the French in behalf of the colonies not too long before in 1756. Parliament thought that the colonies should help pay for that war since they were the benefactors of it. I don't think it was an unreasonable expectation. While I also understand the grievances of the colonies to ask for representation as citizens of the Kingdom at large, which obviously the body was unwilling to grant. Had cooler heads prevailed on both sides, who knows how history might have turned out.
@@FLASK904 it was unreasonable because helping the colonists did not justify their pursuit of expansion of power and all the taxes they imposed on the colonies. it was in everyone's interest the british won, but the colonists didn't deserve to be represented iwthin government but did deserve to be forced to pay taxes?
As an American I can say during the colonial times the people in the colonies recognized themselves as British subjects with loyalty to the king. The colonists viewed themselves as subjects to the king and not Parliament, as they had their own governments and collected their own taxes. Most of the bushiness done with Britain was mostly trading. The causes for the break were many. First was the Seven Years War (known as the French and Indian War here in the U.S.) where the British and French were fighting over territory in the U.S. as well as in India as well. The British and French were actively fighting in North America with the British defending the colonies. Many colonists joined in on the fighting as well. George Washington being one of the many who took up for the British cause. The British won the war and won land from the French (in America the won land west of the Application mountains to the Mississippi River, and Canada). However in fighting the war the British racked up a huge debt.
Parliament believed that the colonists should help pay off the war debt, and passed the Stamp Act. It just wasn't the colonists who were subjected to the Stamp Act, the Stamp Act was also a thing in Great Britain itself. The Stamp Act was ill received in the Colonies. The cries of "No taxation without representation" were shouted as the colonists felt that they shouldn't be taxed by Parliament due to the fact that they had no representation in Parliament. Boycotts of buying any products that were subject to the tax. They would tar and feather tax collectors. Parliament was forced to repeal the Stamp Act. Parliament tried other taxes but to similar results. Eventually all the taxes were dropped except for a Tax on tea, which lead to the Boston Tea party where a group of colonists disguised as Native Americans boarded a ship with created of tea on it in Boston Harbor and threw the tea overboard. In retaliation Parliament passed as series of acts referred to here in America as "the Intolerable Acts". Basically claiming that the colonists were responsible to paying for the tea lost, and levied a tax against the colonists until the debt was paid. They closed the port of Boston. Forced the colonists to have to quarter British troops in their homes. It came to a head in 1775 during the famous Battles at Lexington and Concord where "the shot heard around the World" was fired.
Yes it was more Parliament than the King, but since Parliament and the British government were acting on the King's authority the colonists were blaming the King. Also the Second Continental Congress sent what was known as the "Olive Branch Petition" to George III to seek out a peaceful solution. It was said upon looking at it that George III said "The dye is cast." A couple of months after getting the king's reply the Second Continental Congress voted on independence. As stated before the colonists did not recognize Parliament as being a governing body over them, but only the king.
George III would go out driving a carriage with just the Queen with him. No airs or graces. The common people called him "farmer George" as a token of respect for such humility in a King.
The American colonists, for the most part, were loyal to England. They considered themselves Englishmen, first, and colonists, second. This is very evident in the diplomatic and personal letters traversing the pond leading up to the American Revolutionary War. It’s evident in the verbiage in the Declaration of Independence. As English colonists, they increasingly believed that their rights *as* Englishmen were being ignored and broken.
The numerous and increasingly continuous meetings with the Royal Court did little to assuage concerns the colonist’s complaints raised over a span of 40 years. Rather than address the concerns, the court of King George III chose to double down on the colonists perceived second class citizenship - after all, most of the large landowners were originally second or third sons of the landed aristocracy of England, sent to the colonies to manage plantations.
Why, after all, was there tea in Boston Harbor (and Charleston, and Virginia, etc…) in the first place? Because they were Englishmen, connected via custom and tradition to England proper. Instead of considering the concerns and complaints of these Englishmen, Parliament all but affirmed this second-class status by instigating the forced monopoly of English-only imported tea via the Tea Act of 1773 - a way to prop up the failing East India company solely on the backs of the colonists. Because of the destruction of the tea (after demanding that the Massachusetts Governor send it back…) Parliament instituted martial law in Massachusetts and shut down the harbor. And the rest is history…
Could King George III have eased this crisis with diplomacy? Probably. But with the Napoleonic threat, the failing of the East India Company, the thought appears to have been - “They’re Englishmen - they’ll get over it and everything will go back to normal…”
Rather than Mad King George, the problem seems more like Mad Parliamentarians and a weak monarch.
I can see the resemblance.
Coming from an American:
"Forgive your enemies, but remember their names."
- John F. Kennedy
That is also one of my favorite JFK quotes.
I would love to have a class about King George III with King Charles III lecturing it.
In my opinion he was the best king of England.
Thank you Your Majesty for this; a more accurate portrayal of a long-serving and personable King.
Few realize, especially in the American historical records, that King George III was actually a capable administrator, an apt documentarian, and a prominent historical figure during his honorable term. May we recognize the benefits of his reign.
Hopefully, with your valuable opinion, historical corrections will be acknowledged. May God Bless 🙌
🤍⌛️🕯🕊
Honestly, I think King Charles would be a remarkable narrator for documentaries on history or nature.
He didn’t lose it .. the Americans TOOK it. Wouldn’t have mattered what king it was. That’s why American Independence Day means so much more than the countries who just drifted away from monarchy.
Not all Americans took it. The loyalists had to flee to Canada to escape the murderous vengeance of the victorious rebels.
3% Fought for independence, the rest, either neutral or loyalists. Read a story about Washington, who when his quartermasters were buying provisions for the Continental Army were being gouged by loyalists. I believe he said fair price or you will get nothing........
If Britain wanted to win, she would. America wasn't worth it. You seem to think America was always important.
@@Donut-fr7is Are you kidding me?? Do you know how much animal fur (especially beaver) was being shipped to Europe during that time? Lumber, cod fish and a myriad of other natural resources including the lowly potato and squash? How the Buffalo was almost put into extinction because of the greed for its meat and skin? How some species actually were extinguished like the passenger pigeon for want of its flesh? The New World was a gold mine of wealth for Britton. And the taxes on Americans without representation! All money flowed to Britton. They lost because their soldiers came out in lines of red coats and the Americans engaged in gorilla warfare on land they knew well. Brits were terrifying in pitched battle but couldn’t adjust to being sniped from the woods. While the British had to rely on victuals and military equipment from across the ocean, America had that right to hand. The Americans were toughened by their very lifestyle of building a new world while the Brits were weak with an easier life.
@@Donut-fr7is no
Interesting
You can see how Charles looks a lot like him
Brooke’s biography is excellent. I read it thirty years ago.
Mad? He was livid. 🤓
Must be cool to have such mighty ancestors
I have the impression that from the British point of view, the colonies on the mid-Atlantic seaboard were relatively small potatoes compared to the threat from France nearby and other business interests abroad, especially India.
I wish the King would take back more of his power.
god save the king
Yes
Porphyria, a horrible disease.
"For many years I I've been fascinated by my ancestor King Charles III in fact so fascinated that uh some 30 years ago the author John Brooke asked me to write the foreword to his book "On the King". Charles III led Great Britian through several years of enormous social upheaval, the digital revolution and the terrible hardships inflicted by war with Putin. Yet history remembers him above all as the Mad King or the King who lost Harry and Meghan. This is a travesty of his real life story. I I've read the doctor's reports and the Kings correspondence in the Royal archives, and I concluded that yes he was ill but he was not insane. There really is a veil of obscurity that hinders our understanding of King Charles III's true personality, and I believe it is time to reassess our view of him"..... HRH Prince of Wales in the future......
George III was not mad, he suffered from Porphyria. Porphyria is not a "mental illness". Porphyria is a defect in the metabolism of red blood cell molecules, responsible for transporting oxygen. One of its symptoms is suffering from hallucinations and mental confusion, among many other ailments, hence the belief, at the time, that the king was mad. Today it is a disease that can be managed with medication.
I have it as well.
No person could hold the office of King of England and be entirely normal. An extraordinary office requires extraordinary people, with all that implies.
Did George III take a step in mending the division between England and America when he received John Adams?
George went “mad” in his later years. Diagnosis of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia usually comes in the late teens to early twenties. He could have had dementia. The experts say it could also have been bipolar disorder or a blood condition, which does not really add up
Porphyria is a genetic disorder that also affects the nervous system, other organs and the skin. The psychiatric manifestations are caused by the stress and incorrect treatment of the physical symptoms.He was not the first in his family to inherit the condition. George III's doctors were the crazy ones.
Some say it was syphilis, probably from buggering god-knows-what.
Who would like to admit that there was insanity in the family history?
Every royal family has hundreds of years of inbreeding, I feel like it's a done deal that they're all inbred and, as a result, insane at this point.
It was not "insanity" Porphyria is a genetic disorder that also affects the nervous system, other organs and the skin. The psychiatric manifestations are caused by the stress and incorrect treatment of the physical symptoms.He was not the first in his family to inherit the condition. George III's doctors were the crazy ones.
The Porphyrias are genetic disorders that affect the central nervous system, various organs, the gastrointestinal system, skin, etc. They are caused by a buildup of chemicals related to red blood cell proteins. The psychiatric manifestations are caused by the misdiagnosis and lack of proper treatment of the physical symptoms. His diet alone was insufficient.
King George the III was not insane nor was he a madman. Sarcastically saying I love how people have this view on him without knowing anything about the late King. They even made a movie called the madness of king George. Nonsense! Is their a movie called the madness of King John, I don’t think so and that King was mad. King George the III was loyal to his country and family. He wanted the best for both. No King George the III did not lose the American colonies because in the beginning of the conflict the British Empire was winning by a lot but then it was British parliament who cut funding for the conflict then years after the British Empire lost. That would not be the first time parliament would destroy a British Empire either. The Napoleonic wars must have been tough on King George. Not as young as he used to be and the threat of invasion from Napoleonic France was getting more real as the time went on. I am very sympathetic toward
King George the III and thank you Sir for telling the truth.
He seems to have had a medical condition that led to bouts of mental instability. Plus the arsenic didn't help.
Please watch “The Madness of King George” and you’ll see how losing the United States, a colony rich in natural resources, drove him to rage and madness.
Quiet, wanker!
George III was not mad, he suffered from Porphyria. Porphyria is not a "mental illness". Porphyria is a defect in the metabolism of red blood cell molecules, responsible for transporting oxygen. One of its symptoms is suffering from hallucinations and mental confusion, among many other ailments, hence the belief, at the time, that the king was mad. Today it is a disease that can be managed with medication.
I have it as well.
Arsenic is on the list of unacceptable drugs for Porphyria.
This clip basically says nothing lol why upload a 1 minute clip where it’s pretty much just the video title being read off
Let's be honest, the King's doctors are going to be as short and sympathetic as possible in their notes for self preservation.
🇺🇸 no taxation without representation
😔
The answer:
Bloody mad.
You English are just too high strung!
@@TylerD288 I'm not English, I'm from the country that kicked this guy's a$$ lol
George III was not mad, he suffered from Porphyria. Porphyria is not a "mental illness". Porphyria is a defect in the metabolism of red blood cell molecules, responsible for transporting oxygen. One of its symptoms is suffering from hallucinations and mental confusion, among many other ailments, hence the belief, at the time, that the king was mad. Today it is a disease that can be managed with medication.
I have it as well.
Couldn't agree more. A much maligned person.
United States was in a temporary moment of leverage when the treaty of Paris was negotiated and ratified. If the British held out, North America could’ve been British. Now it looks like England’s only hope is to become a state.
He suffered Terrible Depression caused by the burden of ruling a vast Kingdom and by his sons desire to be king
King George III is one of my favorite British kings what what!
You poor bugger!
Duke George III Grandeur Dissounds in the Halls and Anthems of War.
If it wasn’t for him, America would not have been born
Well turns out losing us was a good thing we helped save you multiple time
There are many variables to King George III and America. A lot of it has to do with the Protestant reformation.
He was just grumpy like Charles iii
Reassess all you like but he is the king that lost America. King George, the tyrant.
He was bi-polar, that doesn't mean he was crazy!
George III was not mad, he suffered from Porphyria. Porphyria is not a "mental illness". Porphyria is a defect in the metabolism of red blood cell molecules, responsible for transporting oxygen. One of its symptoms is suffering from hallucinations and mental confusion, among many other ailments, hence the belief, at the time, that the king was mad. Today it is a disease that can be managed with medication.
I have it as well.
The modern diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder dismisses all of the physical symptoms that led the the mental ones.
I'm a republican, but one should not twist history at all costs.
As an American with deep roots in England, I hold immense respect for King George III, recognizing both his challenges and his significant contributions to my ancestral homeland. It’s unjust to define his legacy by a single event, like the loss of the American colonies. My ancestors appreciated his greatness, and I, too, honor that heritage. I proudly stand as a loyalist to both the United Kingdom and the United States, ready to defend and cherish both lands if the time arises. I love you, Your Majesty King Charles III, and send my heartfelt regards from across the pond in America.
😂
Al Capone was ruthless......and a loving family man. Went mad from syphilis after being push out by the syndicate...after prison. Was given a quiet life.... away from prying eye's. He was .... respected. Despite everything....but retired. Only family. No interviews. Only .... story's. King of the Gangster's.
😂😂😂😂
Unpopular king
The sad reality of facial characteristics and how this relates back to the State Of Michigan is unbelievable…. A man that related to Led Zeppelin, six children for boys and two girls… One join the United States military I’m really hoping the army insanely circumvented that woman… And last, but not least large connections to general motors in the heating and cooling industry… cousin was on FBI’s most wanted list got off of it by Arkansas and Canada negotiations and completely hidden somewhere. but the irony of the people surrounding this man on this video and similarities and facial characteristics is unbelievable.
George III did us in America a huge favor. By being so disliked, he motivated us to take over our own goverance.
Did he do his best to thwart the efforts of the abolition of slavery, playing a great part in the prolonging of the slave trade for 20years?
Of course, a man who talks to his plants would want us to "reassess" a mad king.
It's an objective fact, George III was not insane
nice ad hominem, but that has no bearing in the conversation about whether he was a mad or sane
My mom was an intelligent woman and she was the happiest when talking to her plants,nothing wrong with that !
@@adelaferreira4575 I talk to my chickens.
George III was not mad, he suffered from Porphyria. Porphyria is not a "mental illness". Porphyria is a defect in the metabolism of red blood cell molecules, responsible for transporting oxygen. One of its symptoms is suffering from hallucinations and mental confusion, among many other ailments, hence the belief, at the time, that the king was mad. Today it is a disease that can be managed with medication.
I have it as well.
And he was not a tyrant at all. He was kind to Catholics and even pardoned an actual insane woman who tried to assassinate him
With all due respect, I don't think anyone sound of mind holds 1776 against the British anymore, we're besties now, we should kiss and hold hands or something 😂
I'd love to hear either King Charles or Prince William giving their view on the reign of each monarch since William the Conqueror
Canada: What are we? Chopped Liver?
Yes.
Compared to the U.S. OF A. 💪💪💪!!!
So losing the United States drove king Georgi crazy? As an American I feel partly to blame.
No, losing his children did
He lost United States of America,not the America
George the third was a tyrant.
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Gdzie zwiał iście v chazarowie?
He’s not mad, just weird
George III was not mad, he suffered from Porphyria. Porphyria is not a "mental illness". Porphyria is a defect in the metabolism of red blood cell molecules, responsible for transporting oxygen. One of its symptoms is suffering from hallucinations and mental confusion, among many other ailments, hence the belief, at the time, that the king was mad. Today it is a disease that can be managed with medication.
I have it as well.
That dude has an obviously fake British accent.😉
What?
Since becoming King Charles has been quitetly opening up some closets in Windsor castle and exposing some family skeletons to the light of day, certainly his mother would not have approved.
You, of course, are free to reassess your view of George the Third as you see fit on your side of the pond. We however in the United States assessed him as an absentee tyrant who taxed us unfairly to finance wars of aggression around the world directly and indirectly against our interests. Mad or not we rejected him personally and Great Britain collectively as in our interests and I think history has by and large justified our decisions.
It did not affect you personally. You were not alive then.
Your founding fathers were English men. You are England with a twist. Your ideas about freedom and freedom of speech are from England. It is wonderful to see how this branch of the Anglosphere has developed, and I hope it continues, but the part of England that you rejected is miniscule compared to what was kept. You are us.
@@user-qk2rt1cn2s In point of fact my family is entirely IRISH and thus decidedly NON English
@@tomdolan9761 The values, principles, and ideas that formed the USA are English, and go back nearly 900 years. The fact that Irish people also live there is besides the point.
@@user-qk2rt1cn2s Values and principles? Amusing coming from an empire which exploited three quarters of the world for centuries for their own pecuniary interests. Let’s be real shall we? While the US certainly has colonial connections to the English crown we were founded as a constitutional republic in particular opposition to English hegemony. We fought two wars firmly asserting our independence. For the English to take credit for our success is hubris of the first order.
GOD SAVE THE KING 🇬🇧
Why King, but not you.....God is equal
Putting Charles III on the thumbnail of a video with title “The king who lost America” is a stroke of genius by BBC. BBC, are you trying to tell us something about the near future?
As an American, king charles asking us to “reassess” king George seemed slightly ominous/threatening LOL
England lost America, yes.
London-city however ...
King Cope
And to think that all King George III had to do was allow parliamentary representation from New England
Charles is more mad that George ever was.
Ok. I’m related to Jesus. So there!
Porpheria
Still whining about empires lost lol. So much pride was destined for a fall.
How's he whining? He's simply talking about a very important and interesting British historical figure, Britain's longest reigning King and the first monarch of the United Kingdom.
@@thespecialist3728 Then talk about the figure and his achievements/failures but don’t use clickbait in the title. Boasting about empires one could’ve possessed if they had only done this or that centuries ago reeks of arrogance.
@@NemeanLion- How? He is the king who lost America though isn't he? That's what he's known for, being the last king of America just like Louis XVI is known as the last king of France? What's your point?
Elizabeth lost the rest of your empire… sux to be the King of a rump empire while your youngest son married some as we say in America…. From the wrong side of the tracks.. Happy 4th of July!
Not Elizabeth, but parliament did. Because Charles isn’t the king of “a rump empire” since it doesn’t exist
You mean oldest son?
Your views on Empire are deluded
King Charles is:
King of England
King of Scotland
King of Northern Ireland
King of Canada
King of Australia
King of New Zealand
King of Jaimaca
And head of the British Commonwealth.
ABSOLUTELY.
He should not only be judged by one single event...
He should also be judged as the king who annexed Ireland, abolished the Irish parliament, encouraged English lords to take.and occupy Irish lands, and also the king who set into motion events and policies that ultimately led to the Great Irish Famine that utterly destroyed Ireland.🤔🤔
What a great man he was...😑🙄😒
Literally monarchist propaganda