[Winniesboy]

Coincidentally there's a news item today about the public release for the first time of a large collection of Geore III's private papers, which until now have been inaccesible in the royal archives. This, it's being said, may lead to a reappraisal:

Second thoughts on George III. Online project could alter view of king.

I don't claim any expertise in the period, but one thing which often strikes me about the conventional American view of the events of the 1770s is the tendency to attribute to George III much greater personal responsibility for British errors than was actually the case.

[naturalman1975]

Yes, I saw a little about that earlier and bookmarked it to read later - apparently they have a document he wrote in preparing to abdicate.