The King is Dead, Long Live The King!
Jan. 30th, 2007 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anonymoose_au8:36am/9:38pm 29th January (British Time): Well, I'm off by one hour and a couple of minutes, but 187 years ago this day George III died at the age of 81 years, seven months and twenty-five days! Unfortunately for poor GIII he had spent the last 10 years of his life senile and locked up in Windsor Castle! He was hardly visited by anyone in his family (he didn't recognise them when they did) and lived in rooms so cold that his attendants could only remain in them for half an hour (fortunately, GIII seemed rather immune to the cold).
He was not told that his wife had died in November 1818, although he probably wouldn't have been to comprehend it if he had been :O( Although every so often he seemed to be 'with it'. Let it be remembered that for most of the 10 years he was not told of any news or great events or things like that, so it's not surprising he lived in a fantasy world, his mind would have been bored shitless!
In his last years of life he was described as looking like King Lear (from Shakespeares play) and he always seemed to remember he was King, making sure to dress up for dinner and wear his Garter Star (the highest and oldest Order of Chilvary in Britain). He also started referring to himself in the third person as if he was all ready dead and once said. "I must have a new suit of clothes, and they will be in mourning black in memory of King George III, for he was a good man."
Indeed he was! What, what?
He was not told that his wife had died in November 1818, although he probably wouldn't have been to comprehend it if he had been :O( Although every so often he seemed to be 'with it'. Let it be remembered that for most of the 10 years he was not told of any news or great events or things like that, so it's not surprising he lived in a fantasy world, his mind would have been bored shitless!
In his last years of life he was described as looking like King Lear (from Shakespeares play) and he always seemed to remember he was King, making sure to dress up for dinner and wear his Garter Star (the highest and oldest Order of Chilvary in Britain). He also started referring to himself in the third person as if he was all ready dead and once said. "I must have a new suit of clothes, and they will be in mourning black in memory of King George III, for he was a good man."
Indeed he was! What, what?
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