Recent research has suggested that the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte was intellectually and culturally far more outward looking than was previously imagined. Artists, musicians, scientists and philosophers were regular visitors, and the King in his early years was a notably active patron.In the seventeen essays gathered together under the deliberately revisionist title The Wisdom of George the Third, scholars, historians and curators make a convincing case for reappraising the achievements of the King's long reign.
