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  1. New novel on NetGalley!

    For those of you who are interested, my new novel Radical Magic comes out on 1st September, and it's available for reading and requesting on NetGalley right now! It is 1808. In Great Britain King George's health is precarious. Magic is struggling against science. Searching for a purpose in life, the Elfin gentleman Sir Auberon LaFaye discovers radical politics, then falls in love with the desperately ill Princess Amelia. Mrs Constantia Priddy and her unshakeably practical friend Miss […]

    katemacdonald.net/2026/08/06/n

  2. New novel on NetGalley!

    For those of you who are interested, my new novel Radical Magic comes out on 1st September, and it's available for reading and requesting on NetGalley right now! It is 1808. In Great Britain King George's health is precarious. Magic is struggling against science. Searching for a purpose in life, the Elfin gentleman Sir Auberon LaFaye discovers radical politics, then falls in love with the desperately ill Princess Amelia. Mrs Constantia Priddy and her unshakeably practical friend Miss […]

    katemacdonald.net/2026/08/06/n

  3. @PaulBusch We were blessed to have #GeorgeIII, a wise and benevolent king (when he was in his right mind).

  4. @PaulBusch We were blessed to have #GeorgeIII, a wise and benevolent king (when he was in his right mind).

  5. George III, rey de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda

    George III, nacido el 4 de junio de 1738 en Londres, es uno de los monarcas más importantes de la historia británica. Reinó sobre Gran Bretaña e Irlanda de 1760 a 1801, y luego sobre el Reino Unido de 1801 a 1820, así como sobre el reino de Hannover de 1814 a 1820. Este largo período de reinado estuvo marcado por eventos significativos que moldearon la historia de Gran Br…

    #Akerix #IA #AI #GeorgeIII
    akerix.com/on-this-day/06-04-g

  6. #GeorgeWashington was inaugurated #OnThisDay in 1789.

    Is the US president a republican substitute for royalty? The influence of #GeorgeIII on the Founding Fathers was profound.

    🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days

    historytoday.com/archive/featu

  7. #GeorgeWashington was inaugurated #OnThisDay in 1789.

    Is the US president a republican substitute for royalty? The influence of #GeorgeIII on the Founding Fathers was profound.

    🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days

    historytoday.com/archive/featu

  8. @augieray I'd take #GeorgeIII over Pres. Trump any day of the week.

  9. @augieray I'd take #GeorgeIII over Pres. Trump any day of the week.

  10. @GiftArticles If our Founders had realized we'd wind up with a mad king anyway, they could have saved themselves from a war and just stuck with Mad King George III. #Kings #GeorgeIII #tyrants

  11. @GiftArticles If our Founders had realized we'd wind up with a mad king anyway, they could have saved themselves from a war and just stuck with Mad King George III. #Kings #GeorgeIII #tyrants

  12. @gtconway3dg What's to parse? His words speak more clearly than ever his usual word salad does. Trump wants and intends to be a dictator. If democracy ends on this note, there's no question that we should have just kept George III. #GeorgeIII #AmericanHitler

  13. TIL: Herschel wanted to call the planet he discovered "George", after the British Monarch at the time.

    This was overruled, and instead it was called Uranus, after the British Monarch at the time.

    #Urhiness #Youranus #GeorgeIII

  14. George III was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover and the first of them to be born in England and speak English as his first language. He was the longest lived and longest reigning British monarch up to that point, although his record was subsequently beaten by his granddaughter Queen Victoria and then by Elizabeth II.

    10 things you might not know about George II:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2016/

    #GeorgeIII #KingsAndQueens #History #BritishHistory

  15. George III was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover and the first of them to be born in England and speak English as his first language. He was the longest lived and longest reigning British monarch up to that point, although his record was subsequently beaten by his granddaughter Queen Victoria and then by Elizabeth II.

    10 things you might not know about George II:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2016/

    #GeorgeIII #KingsAndQueens #History #BritishHistory

  16. Here, btw, is a photo of that first known English language Haggadah, printed by Alexander Alexander in 1770, and held by the National Library and Archives of Canada. You can see the wine stains on the pages. #Haggadah #Passover #Pesach #Seder #London #Ottawa #yow #LowyCollection #Jewish #Yiddishkeit #JewishHistory #GeorgeIII

  17. Here, btw, is a photo of that first known English language Haggadah, printed by Alexander Alexander in 1770, and held by the National Library and Archives of Canada. You can see the wine stains on the pages. #Haggadah #Passover #Pesach #Seder #London #Ottawa #yow #LowyCollection #Jewish #Yiddishkeit #JewishHistory #GeorgeIII

  18. Possibly the most dissipated contemporary portrait of #GeorgeIII ever made - drawn by Richard Courbold, engraved by Vincent Woodthorpe.