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.

Roberts is the author of The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of King George III. He is also the author of biographies of Napoleon, Churchill, and other acclaimed works for history.

The document not only proclaimed the sovereignty of the United States, but it also cast King George III of Great Britain as the chief villain in America’s origin story. As a constitutional ...

George III was neither mad nor bad. The U.S. Declaration of Independence filed 28 charges of misgovernment against the British king who lost the American colonies, but recent scholarship argues ...

King George III, who ruled Britain from 1760 to 1820, was a shortsighted, self-centered leader who probably had bipolar disorder, but he wasn’t a bloodthirsty despot, according to Andrew Roberts.

King George III isn't exactly a hero of history. In most U.S. textbooks, he is portrayed as the British tyrant who lost the Colonies in the American Revolution. He's scarcely more popular in his ...