The Wisdom of George the Third
Papers from a Symposium at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace June 2004
Distributed for Royal Collection Trust
Introduction
Abbreviations
I George III in 1760
1 George III’s parents: Frederick and Augusta
John Harris
2 Lord Bute and King George III
Francis Russell
3 George III’s State Coach in context
Jonathan Marsden
4 The courts of Hanover and Strelitz
Marcus Köhler
II ‘The Patron of Arts’
5 George III and his painters
Christopher Lloyd
6 George III’s acquisitions on the Continent
Jane Roberts
7 Furnishing George III’s palaces
Hugh Roberts
8 Music at the court of George III and Queen Charlotte
Stephen Roe
III Queen Charlotte
9 Queen Charlotte and her circle
Clarissa Campbell Orr
10 Queen Charlotte’s jewellery: reconstructing a lost collection
Judy Rudoe
11 Princesses: telling the story
Flora Fraser
12 Dining with George III and Queen Charlotte
Matthew Winterbottom
IV George III and the Institutions
13 George III and the Royal Academy of Arts: the politics of culture
Holger Hoock
14 George III and his geographical collection
Peter Barber
15 George III and the Royal Navy
Celina Fox
16 George III, scientific societies, and the changing nature of scientific collecting
Jane Wess
17 George III: Enlightened monarch?
David Watkin
Contributors
Photographic acknowledgements
History: British and Irish History
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