Synopsis
Lucy Worsley discusses the bad health and supposed madness of George III.
- Programme: Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History
- Episode: 02: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2013
- History | Medicine in Britain, c1000-present | c1700-c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain | Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
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