A sceptre that went missing from a seafront statue about 40 years ago is to be replaced. The monument to King George III was ...

The monument to King George III was installed on Weymouth's Esplanade in 1809 to mark the monarch's Golden Jubilee. But the 5ft-long (1.5m) staff, topped with a cross, disappeared from his right ...

The King's Statue on Weymouth seafront is a well known landmark in the town - but poor George III - who made the resort famous thanks to his visits in the late 1700s and to whom the statue was ...

George III was born on 4 June 1738 in London ... War began in 1775 and was prolonged in 1779, at the king's insistence, to prevent copycat protests elsewhere. The British defeat in 1781 prompted ...

IT'S been a right royal mystery - but the case of the missing sceptre could soon have a happy ending. The King's Statue on Weymouth seafront is a well known landmark in the town - but poor George ...

King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child. A disobedient child, of course, must be punished.