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Both kingdoms were in a personal union under him until the Acts of Union merged them on 1 January He was a monarch of the House of Hanover who—unlike his two predecessors—was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

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George's life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Further wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in In , the transatlantic slave trade was banned from the British Empire.

In the later part of his life, George had recurrent—and eventually permanent— mental illness. Although it has since been suggested that he had bipolar disorder or the blood disease porphyria, the cause of his illness remains unknown. George suffered a final relapse in , and his eldest son, the Prince of Wales , became Prince Regent the following year.

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At the time of his death, George III was the longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch ; he remains the longest-lived and longest-reigning male monarch. Historical analysis of his life has gone through a " kaleidoscope of changing views" that have depended heavily on the prejudices of his biographers and the sources available to them. As he was born two months prematurely and thought unlikely to survive, he was baptised the same day by Thomas Secker , who was both Rector of St James's Church, Piccadilly , and Bishop of Oxford.

One month later he was publicly baptised at Norfolk House, again by Secker. George grew into a healthy, reserved and shy child. The family moved to Leicester Square , where George and his younger brother Edward later Duke of York and Albany were educated together by private tutors. Family letters show that he could read and write in both English and German, as well as comment on political events of the time, by the age of eight.

He was the first British monarch to study science systematically.