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Apr 15, 2013 · George III is well known in children's history books for being the "mad king who lost America". In recent years, though, it has become fashionable among historians to put his "madness" down to the ...
May 17, 2023 · Much more recently, a team of researchers at St George’s, University of London, countered that George III’s madness was not caused by porphyria but was simply a version of severe mental illness.
- Dr. Howard Markel
May 7, 2023 · Though the show is fictional, the real King George III did likely suffer from mental illness. George ascended to the throne at age 22, and was King of Great Britain until his death in 1820 at age 81.
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Mar 22, 2024 · His final bout occurred in November 1810 after the death of his beloved daughter, Princess Amelia. He never recovered from this final illness, and died in isolation at Windsor Castle 10 years later. The King experienced both physical and mental symptoms, including fever, frequent vomiting, and swelling of the legs and feet.
This review is concerned with the nature of the recurrent mental ill health of King George III (1738–1820), reinvestigation of the widely accepted belief that he suffered from acute porphyria, how this unlikely diagnosis was obtained and, in particular, why it has gained so much unwarranted support. In the mid-1960s, Ida Macalpine and Richard ...
- Timothy Peters
- 10.7861/clinmedicine.11-3-261
- 2011
- Clin Med (Lond). 2011 Jun; 11(3): 261-264.
Illness Gold guinea of George III, 1789. By this time, George's health was deteriorating. He had a mental illness characterised by acute mania. Until the mid-20th century, the King's illness was generally considered to be psychological.
What caused King George III's illness? So, what was the cause of the madness of King George? At the time, mental health breakdowns were caused by an imbalance of the four humours, hence the abominable treatments George was subjected to as physicians attempted to ‘draw out’ his illness and return the king’s humours to balance.
