As we all know, Queen Elizabeth II of England is the first British monarch with a 70-year reign, followed by Queen Victoria who reigned for 64 years, and George III is in third place. Women generally live longer than men, George III is the longest reigning male monarch in Britain, and our family's Qianlong also reigned for 60 years, in the same era as this George III.
One day in the autumn of 1788, the 50-year-old King George III of England was riding a horse in the countryside, when a sudden rain came, and George III was caught off guard by a falling chicken. He shivered, suddenly his whole body spasmed, and immediately rushed back to the palace, and under the care of his attendants, his body quickly recovered as usual.
It soon became clear that George III's behavior became more and more bizarre, and he often muttered and danced alone. At one time, he stubbornly took an oak tree for the king of Prussia and talked to him for a long time. While the family was having dinner at Windsor Castle, George III suddenly foamed at the mouth and his eyes were bloodshot, and beat his son George IV for no reason.
The king is crazy!
George III was transferred to a remote insane asylum outside London, and before the middle of the 19th century, the best tool of European quacks to save people was bloodletting, and the cruel torture of George III by imperial doctors began.
The attending doctor, Francis Willis, the owner of a private insane asylum in Lincolnshire, in addition to bloodletting, his treatment methods are mainly reprimands, intimidation, and binding of patients. When George III refused to eat, they tied him to the bed with strips of cloth, and in order to prevent the king from running around, the imperial doctors made a chair for him, somewhat similar to the table and chair for infants and toddlers, to restrict his movement.
In order to attract the "bad liquid" from the king's body, quacks caught all kinds of poisonous insects to bite him, and also applied mustard dressing all over his body. The king was blistered, painful, itchy and spicy, writhing and screaming in pain. The imperial doctors tied him up like a pig, tied him to a stool, and could not move.
(George III)
Around the town where George III retreated, people often heard the king's howls of pain, and after half a year of torture, George III actually recovered unexpectedly. It now appears that George III was suffering from intermittent mental disorders, but the imperial physicians at the time had limited knowledge and believed that it was their miraculous remedies that played a key role.
Born in London in June 1738, George III was the first King of the Hanover dynasty to be born and raised in England. His father is Prince Fred, an unlucky child who specializes in against his father, and his grandfather is the irascible child George II who specializes in against his father.
That is to say, his father worked against his grandfather, his grandfather worked against his great-grandfather, and Qiao San, before he grew up to work against his father, his father hung up in a hurry. However, he couldn't escape fate, didn't become his father, and later worked against his son Qiao Si, this big son is strange from top to bottom.
Let's take a look at the relationship between this family: Qiao Yiqiao II is father and son, Qiao 2 Qiao 3 is a grandchild, and there is a Prince Fred in between, who died in front of his father Qiao 2, and Qiao 3 and Qiao 4 are father and son. The first four kings of the Hanover dynasty were called George, these Europeans were lazy, they chose names and refused to use their brains, in fact, they could learn from Japan, called without underwear, Kameda grandson and the like, Sister Mao remembered it at once.
Qiao San is a lucky goose, he gave birth two months earlier than the original due date, and it looks like he will not live long. The main reason was that his father quarreled with his grandfather, and Qiao Er threw his parents out of the palace, and his mother was born prematurely.
We have told the story of Qiao Er, click here to review: My happiest thing is that my son died before me
Unlike the appearance of his first life, Qiao San grew up healthier and healthier, and when he was 12 years old, his father hung up, and George became the British crown prince. The characteristics of the Hanover dynasty are that the relationship between the king's father and son is very bad, and the relationship between ancestors and grandchildren is still good, and Qiao Er is very concerned about this eldest grandson who is knighted and granted territory.
(Young George III)
Qiao San's mother is a little dragged back, Qiao and his wife are not good for their son, and their daughter-in-law is naturally not welcomed. Women are long hair and short knowledge (referring to Sister Mao), a little personal grudge to involve politics, Qiao San's mother actually used the child's political future as a tool to retaliate against her in-laws.
After Qiao San's father died, his mother locked the children at home, did not contact the outside world, resolutely refused to let them meet with their grandparents, and talked about their in-laws. He also found a lover who was not on the stage to live with, regardless of the image, and was ridiculed by the British media.
In the spring of 1756, when Qiao San turned eighteen, his grandfather Qiao II was very happy and gave him the grand St. James's Palace. Qiao San's mother acted as a demon, let her son refuse the king's reward, insisted on keeping her son by her side, and wanted him to be an obedient mom boy. Qiao Er wanted to marry a Prussian princess for his grandson to strengthen the country, but his daughter-in-law did not agree.
On October 25, 1760, Qiao Er sat on the toilet and ascended to heaven, at this time, the Seven Years' War had not yet ended, which was too regrettable for Qiao Er. All of Europe turned upside down, and he, a war maniac, actually had no chance to participate, but Fred's evil obstacle died ahead, and he could also be blind. A few days later, the 22-year-old eldest grandson Qiao San ascended the throne and became the third king of the Hanover dynasty of England.
(George III the Younger)
Unlike the previous two King George, Qiao San is a native of the British, a standard London accent, he identifies with his British identity, his hometown Hanover is just an empty concept of ancestral land for him, Qiao San has never set foot in Hanover for half a step in his life.
The British Parliament specifically bullied outsiders, and while they were not familiar with England, they drafted provisions to limit the power of the king and expand the power of parliament. In 1688, the Dutch son-in-law William came to take over the English throne, and Parliament engaged in a cannon battle, directly establishing a constitutional monarchy, and the king became a mascot. When the German relative Joe came in 1714, the parliament worked overtime to add many terms, and the king was probably left with only the power to decide whether to eat peanuts or corn at noon.
Qiao San is an enterprising king, he does not want to be like Qiao Yi Qiao Er, he has the intention to restore the dignity of the king and take back everything that belongs to the king, but this is not easy. Qiao first instructed his henchmen to form a faction called "Friends of the King", and after a few operations, the members of this faction began to enter the cabinet and slowly approached the center of power.
(George III Family Portrait)
Joe San's actions quickly alarmed the Whigs, and a councilman named John Wilkes published a newspaper article attacking the king for wanting to put royal power above parliament. Qiao San was angry and directly ordered Wilkes to be arrested. The man was caught, but trouble ensued, the parliamentarian enjoyed immunity, and the court could not try him at all.
Qiao San was indignant and asked the council to expel Wilkes so that the other party was not a councillor, and he could clean up this thorn. But this matter suddenly fermented rapidly, major newspapers rushed to report it, and Wilkes was put on the hot search. Sister Mao estimated that the Whigs had found a bunch of writers and wrote small essays in the media overnight, portraying Wilkes as a tragic hero persecuted by royal power.
Then, under the influence of the Whigs, people began to demonstrate in support of Wilkes. Under pressure, Wilkes was arrested, released, and the whole British people were paying attention to him, the news about him was in the top ten of the hot search list, every newspaper was a front-page headline, and Wilkes was hyped as a political star.
What stunned Qiao San even more was that in the next election, the British people took the lead for Wilkes, everyone voted for him, and a small reporter actually became the mayor of London. Qiao San is no matter how authoritarian and poisonous he is, and he does not dare to overturn the results of the popular election, so he has to accept the reality with his head down. Qiao San failed to seize power, and still could only decide whether to eat peanuts or corn at noon.
(George III)
Objectively speaking, Qiao San is a good king, handsome, self-disciplined, no mistress, no messing with the relationship between men and women, and only guarding his wife all his life. He is also very diligent in government affairs, and he wholeheartedly wants to manage Britain well, but because he is too impatient and does not pay attention to methods, he is planted in the hands of a small reporter who is not in the flow, and the whole country is opposed to him, which is really a bit wronged.
However, such a small matter, in Joe's more than half century of monarchship, is a little thing, what really makes him blaze in the annals of history is that his grandfather Qiao II took a lot of effort to grab the thirteen colonies of North America, lost in his tenure, and George III became the last king of North America.
Britain was the biggest winner of the Seven Years' War, grabbing thirteen North American states from its arch-rival France. The battle was won, the land was snatched, the money was spent, and the British were living thin. Spending so much money, you have to make up for it from North America, so Britain began to increase its efforts to squeeze.
(North American Anti-British Movement)
As the British cleverly set up various taxes and did one lack of virtue one after another, the anti-British movement in North America intensified, and the British pressed the gourd to float. North Americans are so poor that they eat soil, not to mention that the taxes collected are not enough and the cost of expenses is high, and the British, who have a bad stomach and no eyes for giving birth, feel that the money is too slow and decide to serve the pot.
The British East India Company accumulated a large amount of tea, which began to be dumped in the North American colonies after obtaining a monopoly right, and because the British government exempted the customs duty, the price of this batch of tea was less than half of the market, which seriously affected local tea sales, and tea farmers went bankrupt. In rebellion against British exploitation and oppression, North Americans refused to unload tea.
In November 1773, seven large East India Company tea merchant ships sailed for North America, four to Boston, and three others to New York, Charleston, and Philadelphia, but tea merchants in New York and Philadelphia refused to take the shipments, and the two merchant ships had to sail back to England.
A few days later, the tea merchant ship bound for Boston docked at the pier, and that evening, 60 brave North Americans dressed up on the tea ship and poured more than 300 boxes of tea into the sea, which is the famous fuse of the North American Revolutionary War, the "Boston Tea Party".
(Boston Tea Party)
In order to punish this group of cowboys who wanted to turn the sky, the annoyed British government issued a mandatory decree, stipulating that the British army could forcibly search any house in the colony. This decree provoked a united revolt among North Americans, who launched petitions and boycotts of British goods, and the anti-British movement was in full swing throughout North America.
On April 19, 1775, the British army encountered an ambush of North American militia on the way to capture the anti-British leader, and the two sides fought fiercely, firing the first shots of the North American Revolutionary War. On July 4, 1776, a big man named the United States of America, like a rising red sun, was born in the west of the earth.
The independence of the United States hit George III hard, and since then he has been depressed, and a strong sense of frustration has made him retreat, wanting to return to his hometown in Hanover to retire, but in the end, his hometown did not succeed, but he suffered from intermittent mental disorders. Europe's old rivals suffered even more, and the old Frenchman moved the head of King Louis XVI.
The story of Louis XVI we have told, here to review: France's peerless double pride - the locksmith king and his defeated mother-in-law
(North American War of Independence)
One cheerful morning, the sick Qiao San looked at the mirror and asked: "Magic mirror, magic mirror, who do you say is the most powerful person in the world?" After asking several times, the mirror remained silent, and just as Qiao San shook the mirror vigorously, a loud voice sounded from behind: "It's me!" ”
The frightened Qiao San turned around and looked, only to see a yellow-robed, noble old man looking at him with a smile, his name was Aisin Kyoro Hongli, and behind him was the mysterious and majestic Celestial Empire on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean:
Great Qing Empire!