{"id":1060,"date":"2006-03-12T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2006-03-12T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T21:21:00","slug":"the-madness-of-king-george-and-the-self-importance-of-his-physician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"The madness of King George and the self-importance of his physician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 19th-century blogger Frances Williams Wynn is today reporting on accounts of <a href=\"http:\/\/diariesofaladyofquality.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/insanity-of-george-iii-sir-henry.html\">the madness of King George<\/a> from one of his physicians, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2006\/03\/12\/140504.php\">Sir Henry Halford <\/a>. She&#8217;s displaying a critical mind and a fine turn of phrase:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sir Henry is apt to be the hero of his own stories, and to boast a degree of intimacy and confidence which I am sometimes inclined to doubt. The history of the change on the subject of the Catholic question is very curious, but I own I feel it rather difficult to believe that Sir Henry was admitted into a secret so closely kept.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the accounts of the relationship with the Prince Regent, and about telling the King about Princess Amelia&#8217;s will (her jewels left to a handsome attendant), ring true.<\/p>\n<p>All-in-all an interesting near-contemporary account, I&#8217;d suggest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 19th-century blogger Frances Williams Wynn is today reporting on accounts of the madness of King George from one of his physicians, Sir Henry Halford . She&#8217;s displaying a critical mind and a fine turn of phrase: Sir Henry is apt to be the hero of his own stories, and to boast a degree of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}