![]() (In 1768 George founded the Royal Academy of Arts.) Bute’s only other useful contribution to his royal pupil was to encourage his interest in botany and to implant in the court more respect for the graces of life, including patronage of the arts, than had been usual for the past half century. Though the marriage was entered into in the spirit of public duty, it lasted for more than 50 years, due to the king’s need for security and his wife’s strength of character. As king, in 1761, he asked Bute for a review of all eligible German Protestant princesses “to save a great deal of trouble,” as “marriage must sooner or later come to pass.” He chose Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and married her on September 8, 1761. But at his accession in 1760 in the midst of the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), between Great Britain and Prussia on one side and France, Austria, and Russia on the other, George did not know his own capacity nor the incapacity of his hero. George was potentially a better politician than Bute, for he had tenacity, and, as experience matured him, he could use guile to achieve his ends. This ideal George thought he had found personified in John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, who became his inspiration, his teacher, and later his chief minister. His method of screwing up his courage was to set himself an ideal of conduct. The curious blend of obstinate determination with self-distrust, a feature of his maturity, was already evident. It is clear that, in beginning with his 18th birthday to prepare conscientiously for his future responsibilities, he tormented himself with thoughts of his inadequacy. George was 12 when his father died, leaving him heir to the throne. His affection for his immediate family circle dominated his life. This unequal growth of brain and heart made him difficult to teach and too easy to command and produced in him an appearance of apathy he could not read properly until he was 11. George was a child of strong feelings but of slow mental development. From his parents and their entourage, the young George imbibed an unreasonable dislike of his grandfather, King George II, and of all his policies. George III was the son of Frederick Louis, prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. During the last years of his life (from 1811) he was intermittently mad, and his son, the future George IV, acted as regent. George III, in full George William Frederick, German Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, (born June 4, 1738, London-died January 29, 1820, Windsor Castle, near London), king of Great Britain and Ireland (1760–1820) and elector (1760–1814) and then king (1814–20) of Hanover, during a period when Britain won an empire in the Seven Years’ War but lost its American colonies and then, after the struggle against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, emerged as a leading power in Europe. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. ![]()
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