Andrew Roberts, “In defense of King George III”:
I grew a beard during lockdown, which I’m now going to keep because my wife Susan has called it ‘piratical’. There was a time when I was as pogonophobic as the next man, but no longer. ‘I hate your beard,’ David Starkey told me at a drinks party recently. ‘I didn’t bring her,’ I replied. ‘I’m only here for you.’
No, the quote has nothing to do with King George. It’s from a miscellaneous set of musings that begins with a mention of the author’s current book tour promoting his forthcoming biography of George III, The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III (not to be confused with Jeremy Black’s George III: America’s Last King (2006)). Those of us whose forebears were loyalists look forward eagerly to its publication.
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