… has had to wait two centuries for rehabilitation, but it has come at last. He appears to have read everything that is in the mainstream and much that isn’t, including a wide range of archival sources. … Roberts’s account is masterly, combining a compelling narrative – one has to keep turning the pages even though one knows the outcome – with analysis that is both cogent and incisive. ‘No prisoners are taken, as one detractor after another is skewered. Sir Noel Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year ‘Deeply researched, it ranges with equal authority from his private life to the military history of the American War of Independence its tenacious fairness towards its subject gives in the sort of polemical edge that one finds in revisionist history at its best.’ George III by Andrew Roberts review - in defence of a ‘misunderstood monarch’ | Times2 | The Times The result is a lengthy book that remains engaging throughout.’ … Roberts’s fundamentally humane approach to his biographical subjects … treats George III with as much respect and compassion when sick, blind and deaf as when powerful at the promising start of his reign.
Roberts provides a fresh and spirited account of both occurrences. ‘Magisterial … George III is notorious for two reasons: losing America and going mad. George III is often portrayed as a wicked tyrant, but a historian insists the myths are wrong | Daily Mail Online … His demolition of the authors of the Declaration’s case against George III is elegant and comprehensive.’ ‘Andrew Roberts is our most prodigious biographer. George III by Andrew Roberts book review – The TLS (.uk) Jonathan Clark, Times Literary Supplement
… It must be hoped that Andrew Roberts’s important, serious and timely book plays an appropriate role in the rethinking that can now hardly be avoided.’ ‘Such is Roberts’s persuasive interpretation, supported by a wide range of sources and argued with keen insight into political realities. ‘This mammoth, elegant and splendidly researched biography’ And, coming after his powerful studies of Halifax, Salisbury, Napoleon and Churchill, it consolidates Roberts’s position as one of the greatest biographers in the English language today.’ ‘It is … richly evidenced and scrupulously argued.
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