This is an item about King George III. No, not the series of three films about the Mad King from whom America declared independence. The third King George of The United Kingdom, who was, in fact, a complete loon, and who refused to dismiss his "evil and designing ministers" who whated to impose Stamp Duty. The King who, to all lovers of that hit 1980s British tv comedy series starring Rowan Atkinson, "Blakadder", is known as a "certified sauerkraut sucking loon." It's official. He was made as a march hare. He talked to trees. He kept kangaroos in his garden. He tried to give kangaroos away to his favourites as Christmas presents. But King George didn't much like being at Court. He didn't like the hustle and bustle. He didn't live at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, or any of the other Palaces the Royal Family have strewn about the country. He built a new one. A simple, unostentatious (for a King) one. He built it on the site of the now world-famous Kew Gardens. The name of this semi-palatial, T-Shaped Royal Loony Bin? "The White House".11 responses total.
Seriously, I read somewhere that the producers of "The Madness of King George" decided not to name it "The Madness of King George III" because they were afraid US audiences would think it was the third movie in a series.
He had some genetic disease (porphyria) due to a lot of royal inbreeding which affected his mind.
Mad Royal Disease (MRD)?
Why couldn't the royals find any names other than George, Edwaard, Charles, Louis and the like? I mean why does there have to be a Louis XIV, George V, Edward VII, or Henry VIII? Was it so difficult to find unique names?
Aristocracy and royalty like to name themselves after their ancestors, I guess.
In a conference room at New York Hospital Westchester Division, a mental institution once known as the Bloomingdale Asylum, in White Plains, New York, one of the wall decorations is an authentic report from George III's doctors. In the most polite and optimistic terms, the report details all kinds of bizarre behavior.
The English often name their homes. I knew a family in Tunbridge Wells that lived in "The White House". Why was it named that? Well, it was white. That is somewhat unusual as most homes there are brick.
Not clear on #0: Is this, is is this not, the guy in charge of England during the American Revolution?
Re: 8: Yes, thus the irony. Re: 4: It is traditional in all royal families, or all European Royal Families, at least, to have a certain set of names that are given to Kings, Queens, princes, etc. In the British Royal family there have been 2 Queens Elizabeth, (3 counting the late Queen Mother, who was queen by vortue of marriage to George VI), at least two Annes including Queen Anne and the present Princess Anne, etc. There have been reports that Prince Charles wants to be known as King George VII when he ascends the throne. I believe there have been about twelve Norwegian King Haakon's (pronounced "Hawkon"?). It's just tradition. America seems to be carrying it on with such figures as George and George W Bush, and of course William Henry Gates III, or Kaiser Bill, as I like to call him.
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