A person becomes King or Queen (or Prince; etc.) through the process of Succession. A birth right. But what
kind of King or Queen they become and how they are remembered by history--that's "on" them.
Americans tend to view King George III through the lens of the American Revolution, and the first thoughts about him on this side of the pond are likely to be that he was a villain because of his role in the British war against the American colonies, and that he was "mad."
I wouldn't have thought much different myself until I happened to see a documentary that was aired in connection with the opening of a new library in Britain of letters and documents from George III's life. Just a few years ago.
It's a very large collection of letters and documents, partly because George III was (and still is) the longest-serving male monarch in British history, and partly because George III was kind of a
Renaissance man, by any standards. He had wide-ranging interests, including the scientific discoveries of his time, and is credited in this documentary as being a great "modernizer" of British government and society. This, despite the intermittent episodes when he suffered from obvious psychological or neurological debilitation.
The "royal" you diss may become the "royal" you miss.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 04-17-2021).]
