Andrew Roberts

Renowned biographer and historian Andrew Roberts overturns the traditional view of George III as a pompous tyrant, and a disastrous king.

Roberts argues that George III was an intelligent, benevolent king who was devoted to the constitution and who navigated turbulent times with a strong sense of honour and duty. He takes a fresh look at the American War of Independence and the Declaration of Independence, shows how George’s support for William Pitt was key in the battle with Napoleon, and makes a modern diagnosis of the illness that robbed George of his mind in his final years.

Roberts’s works include Salisbury: Victorian Titan, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, and the bestselling Churchill: Walking with Destiny. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Historical Society, a trustee of the International Churchill Society, visiting professor at the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.