King George III's Private Papers to Go Online

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More than 350,000 documents from the king's 60-year reign are being made public by the Royal Archives, housed at the Round Tower at Windsor.

The Queen said she was "extremely interested" by the books and letters on display in the castle's Royal Library.

Previously unpublished, the papers will give an insight into Georgian Britain and its monarchy.

The work to make the historic documents available will be carried out by experts from King's College London and the Royal Archives.

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Letters about the American War of Independence and 200-Year-Old Poetry Written by the Shah of Persia: The QueenLeft 'Stunned' by Previously Unseen Epistles from George III's Archive

A 200-year-old book of poetry gifted to George III and letters from Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood written during the American War of Independence are among a treasure trove of documents released by royal archive yesterday.

The collection, which was amassed by George III and has been under lock and key for 200 years, has been digitised and the Queen was at Windsor Castle for the launch.

Declaring herself 'stunned' by the collection, none of which she had seen before, Her Majesty admired the poems, which were written by the Shah of Persia himself, and quipped: 'You don't get gifts like that any more!'

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