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A recent BBC 2 documentary "George III: The Genius of the Mad King" is available on Amazon and Roku; I've watched about half of it so far. The blurb at Roku claims: "After 200 years under lock and key, all the personal papers of one of our most important monarchs are for the first time seeing the light of day." This is also the impression I got from watching the video -- that the royals are saying they're releasing every last piece of paper they have. And while it's certainly difficult to be confident that some key papers might not have been squirreled away, on the other hand King George could hardly have had enough time to write much more than the alleged quantity of documents.
So if our theories about the American Revolution (as derived largely from Tupper Saussy) are correct, there ought to be some clues in these documents now being released. Maybe it's time for a review...
Launched by Her Majesty The Queen in 2015, the Georgian Papers Programme (GPP) is an interdisciplinary partnership to conserve, digitise and catalogue 425,000 pages of material held by the Royal Archives and Royal Library relating to the Georgian period, 1714–1837, encompassing the reigns of the five Hanoverian kings (George I, George II, George III, George IV, and William IV). The papers include private, official, and financial material pertaining to the monarchs and their families, papers of various courtiers and ministers, and in addition records which relate to the running of the Georgian royal households. The papers are invaluable in all areas of eighteenth-century study, for they shed light on matters of political, social, economic and military history, as well as international relations and medical knowledge in the Georgian period.
So if our theories about the American Revolution (as derived largely from Tupper Saussy) are correct, there ought to be some clues in these documents now being released. Maybe it's time for a review...
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