![]() ![]() He noted that when he was mad, ‘I speak in the third person, as I am getting into Mr Burke’s eloquence – saying too much on little things.’ When he first met Willis, he chided him: ‘You have quitted a profession I have always loved (the Church) and you have embraced one I most heartily detest.’ When Willis replied mildly that Christ went about healing the sick, the king retorted: ‘Yes, yes, but he had not £700 a year for it.’ He might have been deprived of his wits, but he never lost his wit. Later, he tried to climb the pagoda at Kew, and when he was stopped, lay on the ground and refused to budge, having to be carried home on his servants’ shoulders.Ī few days later, Dr Francis Willis unveiled his new purpose-built restraining chair, which George immediately dubbed my ‘Coronation Chair’. He also claimed that he could see Hanover through Mr Herschel’s telescope and that it had been deluged by a flood like Noah’s. ![]() ![]() When George realised what day it was and that he had been kept in his straitjacket and not allowed to go to church, he suddenly went under the sofa, saying that he would converse with his saviour there, and that no one was to interrupt them. ![]() O n Christmas Day 1788, the king hid his bedclothes under the bed, put a pillowcase on his head and hugged the pillow, which he called Prince Octavius and said had just been born (Prince Octavius had died five years earlier at the age of four). ![]()
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