Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
I am reading Jeremy Black’s George III: America’s Last King. George III considered himself a patriot, taking pride in being an English king, though he was always threatening to abdicate and return to Hannover if he became displeased with his ministers and the House of Commons. George III wanted to ...
Count Us Out (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Dear Ed Hale, Here is my very supportive commentary on your interview of Leo Donofrio re Obama. King George III’s Revenge: British-born Subject Barack Obama to become our next President in Defiance of the U.S. Constitution It is irrelevant if Barack Obama was born on U.S. soil or can even produce a birth certificate. He could have been [...]
The RBC (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
George III was a constitutional monarch: an executive constrained by laws and institutions. For the most part, the so-called constitutional monarchs of today are in fact symbolic. Except when there's a hole in the constitution; then the ghost of past power re-emerges and Kings, Queens and Governors-General of Canada or Australia actually get to decide something, like a president of Italy or...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... 'Ich Dien' from King John of Bohemia.The book then races through Tudors and Stuarts until we meet George, son of George III. Crippled by the promise of the book's title, Loades is forced to write a biography of one of the most vivid characters in English history in 25 pages, but he does find space to allow that, if only for his encouragement of architecture, "posterity owes George...
lgstarr (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Now the hard part comes. We are heading for winter, the time when the summer soldiers fall away and decide that it's easier to live with a King George III or a Barack Obama then to continue a losing fight or be seen as irrational or extremist. What we were doing was a lot easier in 2002 than it will be in 2009. Back then we were supporting the US government in the War on Terror. Shortly we will...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... a glamorous women’s dressing room as a birthday present for a cancer patient. Charles Pavarini III, a Manhattan interior designer, created a festive setting for a Thanksgiving feast in the dining room. Under the original 18-foot-high coffered barrel-vault ceiling, he put an 18-foot-long Spanish-style trestle table, a pair of George III consoles and a Regency mirror (the last two from Hyde...
