Now we can finally see the American revolution from the perspective of King George.

Shortly after the War of Independence, an English father aged 15 sat down and thought that the world had turned upside down. He has never seen America and rarely leaves London. However, according to his personal documents, he paid close attention to the route of the war in the map and the list of corps. As a well-behaved person, his daily letters are written at the moment when the conflict intensifies. He tried to describe the England that his children would inherit. "The United States lost! Do we have to bear the blow? " He writes with neat, sloping hands. "Or do we have the resources to repair this disaster?" This is what George III's father, farmer and king said when measuring the future of Britain. Related content: The midnight trip of Paul Revere and others exposed the genius behind George III's madness in the Royal Archives.

Many Americans, because the colonists became citizens, may be surprised to hear George's inner thoughts about this war, which created their new country. After all, he and the revolutionaries strongly condemned the same ruler in the Declaration of Independence. There, they called George a "prince, so his character was defined as a symbol of every behavior of a tyrant", and they thought that George was "unfit to be the ruler of a free nation". For centuries, popular culture has described "the last king of America" in a critical way. His illness controlled the plot of Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III. Recently, the popular musical Hamilton photographed George III writing a farewell letter to the colony, with the title "You will come back".

Now, for the first time in more than two centuries, you will be able to read the king's side of the American revolution and its consequences in your own castle. George III's article on the loss of colonies is part of his private collection, with more than 350,000 pages. At present, it has been preserved in the Royal Archives of Windsor Castle and the cellar of London City Hall in Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington for about a century. In April 20 15, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened this treasure house to scholars, and plans to start the Georgian thesis project in June 20 17 to digitize and interpret documents for a new website.

Only a part of the information was printed (about 15%). Letters, royal books and maps abound for researchers to explore. George III is not alone: although most archives record his reign, they also contain some documents outlining the political and personal views of several British monarchs and their families from 1740 to 1837.

Why should the Royal Archives, once private, be opened? Oliver Eckhardt Owen, director of the Royal Library and assistant director of the Queen's Archives, said that Georgian newspapers were "absolutely the key to our past". "This is not just our business. It is important to see the relationship between George III and science, agriculture, family and family life, women, education and various disciplines. However, although john adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and other figures in the early days of the People's Republic of China anchored the legendary side of the United States with their frank correspondence, George III's views were not always readily available. By 2020, the Georgian newspaper group will provide all the information in digital format related to the monarch of Hanover, England, free of charge. Joanna Newman, deputy dean and vice president of King's College London, said: "We fully hope that this project will bring some discoveries and change our understanding of18th century. In the spirit of cooperation, Windsor Archives cooperated with the Royal Collection Trust and King's College, University of London to cross the Atlantic and seek help to make the royal script glow. The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture of William and Mary College is the main American partner of this project, and has sponsored several researchers, The Life of Queen Charlotte and Her Children Needs a Modern Biography. Royal art collectors are also worth a second look. Many servants also like the royal style of George and Charlotte (and their 15 children). This treasure house provides a series of dazzling ways to view newly published documents, from recreating royal dinners and tracking Scottish immigrants to censoring African writers in Georgian courts, or comparing Washington's agricultural habits with those of its former king.

"This may be the last great privately owned archive, which will light up the Atlantic world in the18th century," said Karin Woolf, a historian and director of the Omohundro Institute. "Of course, there are brilliant materials about King George III and the lost colonies to explore, but there are also extraordinary materials about transatlantic literature and culture, ideas about labor and agriculture, the highest and most common politics, gender, family ... various topics. It's not just the monarch's information that is preserved here. People who work for them and people who work with them. It is the material created by all kinds of people inside and outside the British Empire.