Other researchers have agreed with this diagnosis Peter Garrard and Vassiliki Rentoumi, analyzing the letters written by George III during 'mentally healthy and apparently mentally ill periods,' backed up the bipolar disorder diagnosis, writing, 'in the modern classification of mental illness acute mania now appears to be the diagnosis that fits best with the available behavioural data.' Garrad told the BBC, 'The porphyria theory is completely dead in the water. He notes George was diagnosed at the time with was then called 'manic depressive psychosis.' Instead, Peters proposes that King George III actually suffered from recurrent mania, possibly bipolar disorder. Recent research, like a paper from Timothy Peters in 2011 in Clinical Medicine, says that Macalpine and Hunter were 'highly selective in their reporting and interpretation of his signs and symptoms and that the diagnosis of the acute porphyria cannot be sustained,' arguing they 'sought to remove 'the taint of madness' from the House of Windsor.' In the 1960s, psychiatrists Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter argued in the British Medical Journal that George had acute porphyrias, a metabolic disorder that impacts the nervous system. The real answers may be lost to history, but there are a few theories. What was wrong with King George III? What caused his mental illness, or his 'madness' as is was called? Even the royal family's official website writes, 'George III is widely remembered for two things: losing the American colonies and going mad. In the last decade of his reign, he was deemed mentally unfit to rule, and his eldest son, Prince George Augustus Frederick was Prince Regent-marking the start of the 'Regency' era. George ascended to the throne at age 22, and was King of Great Britain until his death in 1820 at age 81. Though Queen Charlotte is fictional, the real King George III did likely suffer from mental illness. The entirety of episode four, 'Holding the King,' focuses on the events of the first three episodes from George's perspective, and the inability of royal doctors to treat him. In Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, the mental health struggles that a young King George (played by Corey Mylchreest) faces are a key part of the plot. 'Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.'

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