George III

I try to write something specifically about the "1776 decision" every fourth of July (approximately) since rethinking 1776 is the topic of this blog.
This year I write of George III.  He was monarch of England when England ruled American colonies oppressively.
I studied portraits of him first. (Bible says to pray for those in authority over us. It is easier for me to pray for someone can when i can visualize that one. Bible says God is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him. Bible says God answers prayer.) I felt that if I am going to judge the colonists who rebelled against the ruler in authority over them, I want to know how they should have prayed; and how hard it may have been for them to think charitably of the leaders in England (and in colonies).
[An aside here: the word charity is translation of Greek word "agape" which means the perfect love which Creator God has for His Creation and each of His creatures; and that God and Jesus call their followers to have toward all. God's kind of love.].  So, . . .

George III was born 2 months premature. The family and doctors were, of course, not sure he would survive so had him privately baptized immediately; and later a public baptism. He had big "bug eyes" or "google eyes". Generally a nice looking man, though (if the portraitist s can be believed.) He was Queen Victoria's grandfather.
He married the woman that his mother and her advisors chose for him; and gave up the young woman he first wanted to marry when the advisors didn't accept her. He did not take a mistress. He had many children.
He was grandson of a German royalty , Frederick , of Hanover. He spoke English and German both from childhood.
He had periods of mental illness, but also times of mental good health. Some medical experts now think he may have had "porfiry".
He was the longest ruling English monarch up to his time, becoming King near 20 years old when his grandfather died(around 1740.) ( His father had already died.) He died in 1820. But his son reigned in his place his last 10 years , as he was mentally ill then.
Aside from being the King that the American colonists rebelled against, he is known to have purchased the land where Buckingham palace now is.