But he also makes a powerful case for George’s carefully calibrated sense of royal responsibility and its limits. He robustly grapples with the key crises of the reign, notably the American Revolution and the French wars, painstakingly tracking the monarch’s close control of governmental and political decision-making. Andrew Roberts’s George III is firmly in this tradition. ‘ Royal biography’ is an often-maligned genre, but Elizabeth Longford showed how it could be done with literary flair, empathy and a magisterial grasp of the temper of the times. The chair of the judges, the distinguished historian and historical biographer Professor Roy Foster, awarding the prize, commented that George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch wins Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2022Īt an award ceremony on Monday 13 June 2022 Andrew Roberts’s George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch (Allen Lane, 2021), was announced as the 2022 winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.
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