Not many people know it but a man with strong links to Somerset may have been the secret son of King George III. A new book ...

The Madness of George III at Nottingham Playhouse ... Bennett's 1991 play shows King George battling a mystery mental illness. Nigel Hawthorne won an Olivier Award for playing the troubled monarch ...

His innovative success with the mentally ill led to him being summoned when King George III first displayed symptoms of apparent madness in 1788. When Dr Willis was first called, he encountered ...

But life for the king was far from idyllic. George's first attack of madness --actually the rare blood disorder porphyria, which caused severe abdominal pain, extreme perspiration, dark red urine ...

George III is the best-known of Britain’s Hanoverian kings, but there was much more to him than his ‘madness’ and loss of the ...