The former king of the American Colonies, shown here on a 1797 coin, suffered from a mysterious mania that caused him to speak for hours without pause. His vocabulary became “creative and colorful”.

Wikipedia says 1810 was the height of George III’s popularity. At that time he was virtually blind, in pain, and fell into “distress and crying every day ... melancholy beyond description.”

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TIL: Herschel wanted to call the planet he discovered "George", after the British Monarch at the time.

This was overruled, and instead it was called Uranus, after the British Monarch at the time.

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George III was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover and the first of them to be born in England and speak English as his first language. He was the longest lived and longest reigning British monarch up to that point, although his record was subsequently beaten by his granddaughter Queen Victoria and then by Elizabeth II.

10 things you might not know about George II:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2016/10/october-26th-coronation-of-george-iii.html

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