The Times Book of the YearWinner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2022Winner of the General Society of Colonial Wars Distinguished Book Award 2021Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year 2022Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2021Andrew Roberts one of Britains premier historians overturns the received wisdom on George IIIGeorge III Britains longestreigning king has gone down in history as the cruellest tyrant of this age Thomas Paine eighteenth century a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king W.E.H. Lecky nineteenth century one of Englands most disastrous kings J.H. Plumb twentieth century and as the pompous monarch of the musical Hamilton twentyfirst century.Andrew Robertss magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view.