if nothing else it’s a better use of cable news time than the screechingly reactionary talk show hosted by Evan Green (a bespectacled Dan Stevens), who tears so-called “King George” a new ...

If Nigel Hawthorne had never done anything else in cinema, his performance as the 'mad' George Ill would be sufficient to earn him immortality. It is a part he might have been born to play ...

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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 ...