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First published 2016 by Macmillan
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Copyright © Peter Ackroyd 2016
Cover images: King George III, c.1762–64 (oil on canvas) painted by Allan Ramsay, National Portrait Gallery, London & akg-images/Quint & Lox/© Liszt Collection
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