Many Americans seem to have an odd view of British royalty.

In Alaska, a few years ago, one American asked me if I worried much about the Queen sending her Guard to arrest me if I spoke critically of the Crown. Seriously.

King George III would properly be depicted as a benign old gent, in a general's uniform. His son, the dissolute Prince Regent was certainly corpulent but I wouldn't confuse the Punch cartoons depicting him in his cups as entirely accurate.

The equivalent would be imaging George Washington going into battle waving his false teeth in his hands, wearing a crown & with his beloved Pommeranian perched on his shoulder.

So accuracy rather than caricature, please.

donald

Yea that particular King George is often vilified in the different USA education systems, portrayed as a crazy absolute monarch who had no idea what he was doing. Seems a bit harsh considering how long he reigned and all the stuff the people and monarchy of the isles went through during those years, but suppose the ex-Colonials are bound to have a different take on these things.

:laughing: If that were the case, Fleet Street would be so crammed with Guardsmen that you wouldn't be able to walk down it.