UK - "Madness Of George III"

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:23]5:36 take one.

[00:00:27]Action.

[00:00:28]Married, sir.

[00:00:31]I am married, sir.

[00:00:33]Somebody big, somebody German.

[00:00:35]German, what what?

[00:00:36]I am married, sir. Not without my say-so.

[00:00:41]And I do not say so. I will not say so.

[00:00:44]You are not married, sir.

[00:00:45]If you have a cough, sir, take it outside.

[00:00:48]Fine. Cut.

[00:00:50]Thank you, Regina. What isn't in this beat is the fact that he was ill and not mad. And that's very much what we subscribe to in the in the film, you know, it's uh he was maltreated for insanity, and it was a terrible treatment in those days, you know, and he was blistered and and he was bled, and he was put in a restraining chair and in a straitjacket and and very, very much treated as though he was in Bedlam.

[00:01:16]How is your majesty?

[00:01:18]Fat lot you care. Love, George.

[00:01:22]He was miles away.

[00:01:24]I'm happy to see my father is himself.

[00:01:27]Such good spirits, sir.

[00:01:29]Cut. Come on. One can imagine the fear um if your partner, let alone the King of England, very suddenly um appears to go completely have a like a complete nervous breakdown.

[00:01:43]Um I as far as I can make out historically her her overriding reaction was was terror, really.

[00:01:58]So, thank you, Thompson.

[00:02:04]The king in his mad- madness has um has these sort of sexual delusions about Lady Pembroke.

[00:02:11]Um she's rather hilarious, and of course Lady Pembroke deals with it in her own inscrutable manner by completely ignoring his attentions, because of course anything that the king did that wasn't how shall we say? Uh anything that he had done what during his madness, of course, was completely ignored by everyone.

[00:02:34]It was a remain Everything remained unspoken, and that was how one kept one's job.

[00:02:39]Did we ever forget ourselves utterly, because if we did forget ourselves, I should so like to remember what what No, sir. Your majesty's behavior throughout was impeccable.

[00:02:51]Hey hey. Like the kindest father and most generous of subjects.

[00:02:58]Good. Good.