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I am soon to be king, king to all the people on my land, a father to all the men woman and children. They will look up to me and love me, think of me as their great king.

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September 7, 1761
   In two days I will be meeting my bride for the first time. From what I hear she is young and says what is on her mind. She does not speak English, but she is smart.
   I am soon to be king, king to all the people on my land, a father to all the men woman and children. They will look up to me and love me, think of me as their great king.    People will remember the name King George III. I will be 10 times the king my Grandfather was. They will remember that. My Father would be proud if he was alive.

September 9, 1761
            Today I have been wed. My bride charlotte is beautiful. Even thought I have not known her for more than a day I am in love with her more than anything in the world. She has learned how to play " Long live the King" on the piano and how to sing it in English.

    Not have I only been wed but I have become a king as well. The kinking ceremony was incredible...   As I walked up to the alter I had shivers running down my back. Then when I went to kneel down I felt like I was born to do this, I felt like I was the only true king. I had a feeling that being king was the only path for my life. The pope picked up the sword and touched one shoulder then the other, and I was a king...

   We are going to have a huge feast tomorrow to celebrate my wedding and for me becoming king. Tonight will be the first night that I will be in my castle as king, hopefully my dreams will be filled with the success that is to come... Dreams of the great battles I will be in.

September 20, 1761
            Lately I have been caught up with my dear charlotte. She has learned a little English and I am learning her home language as well. I have made my first decisions as being king of England. Even though there were small decisions I feel that they were big enough to change the world.... After I was done my stomach was turned upside down. I had thoughts running through my head saying things like “ that was the wrong decisions”.

1770
   I am completely outraged at the peoples disrespect towards me and my loyalists. Today I got news that another one of my tax collectors has been tarred and feathered and is hanging dead in the middle of the town where he was collecting at the time. And this is not the first, I’ve had at least 30 other tax collectors tarred and feathered in the last 6 months. And then a party of indians goes apron one of my tea ships and dumps all the crates of tea overboard into the arbor. And later earlier this week I found out that it wasn’t my friend the indians. It was a group of activists trying to get the tax on tea to go down or be gone. But I know what i am going to do, I am going to shut down the harbor where that ship was in. That means no more trade for any of the shops that do business with the ships. No more supplies to refill the shops... That will teach them .

Than they say start a fight with my troops. The boston massacre wasn't even a massacre. The papers blew it all out of porcine. Calling it a massacre when only five people died. Than they say that it was all my troops fault. They wouldn't have got the signals wrong if the colonists won't being so rough.

1785
   Looking back at what I have done and changed sense me becoming king I think that I could have changed a couple decisions but besides that I think that I was a great king... People say that I was a bad king and that i screwed up the way the colonies worked. But I gave them a chance, I tried to help out the people... I had to make a couple more laws and tax some more things but all to help them... And how do they repay me, how do they say thanks? They make a fool out of me and my loyalist, they go on strikes...

1809
   I don’t know what to do... people are calling me crazy, my decisions are all wrong and that only a crazy man would choose that ... They are saying that I should step down from being king. But will I. Will I step down from king, no no I won’t I am going to be king until the day I die.

Epilogue

--In the year 1810 king george was pronounced insane. Queen Charlotte was given custody of their six children. King george and Queen Charlotte had been married for about 50 years at that time... King George died on January 29, 1820 from Syphilis. At the time he was cheating on King George so Queen Charlotte didn’t have syphilis.

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