In Favor of Britain
King
George III, America’s
last King, was born in 1738 and became King on Oct. 1760, at the age of
twenty-two. In 1761 he married Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg
and created a large family of his own.
He was in a constant battle with the colonists and when he lost this
battle, and the Americans gained their independence, he became known as the
“King who lost the American colonies” (Brooke, 162).
Another
battle emerged when, in 1788, he became violently ill with a disease now known
as porphyia. Since this disease
severely affects the brain, he was thought to have gone mad. Eventually he was,
once again, defeated when, in 1820, he passed away at the age of eighty-two.
