\paperw3360 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \pard\tx3255\tx6525\tx9780\ATXts240\ATXbrdr0 \f1 \fs22 Born in London, George III (1738-1820) succeeded his grandfather \b \cf4 \ATXht131900 George II\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland in 1760. He supported his ministers in a hard-line towards the American colonies, and opposed Catholic emancipation and other reforms. However, as time went by he began to suffer fro
m attacks of porphyria, with bouts of insanity that so incapacitated him that by 1811 power was handed over to his son the Prince Regent, later \b \cf4 \ATXht13211000 George IV\fs20 \b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 .\par
