Did King George III turn his back on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
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This letter from John Adams to John Jay makes no mention of any "back turning" incident.
This website talks about how King George III eventually accepted John Adams, and claims that King George III acted in the following manner:
He behaved with dignity during the interview, though he showed that he was affected by it, and assured the minister that as he ‘had been the last to consent to the separation,’ so he ‘would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power’.
The idea that King George III would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States is taken from The works of John Adams, second president of the United States pp. 255-257, which is straight from the horse's mouth.
However, this website states that Thomas Jefferson
attended a levee of George III and his queen. The king turned his back. Jefferson said, "It was impossible for anything to be more ungracious than their notice of Mr. Adams and myself. I saw at once that the ulcerations in the narrow mind of that mulish king left nothing to be expected on the subject of my attendance."
But the above website doesn't cite where it gets the account of the information.
So, your reading of the event never occurring seems to be in line with reality. There is no compelling and convincing evidence (that I could find) to believe that the event actually did happen.
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Ellis is a "popular" historian or, in other words, a story teller who seeks to amuse rather than to inform, -- such is my clear impression from reading his other works. The harangue against George III in the Declaration of American Independence was only one of many diplomatic outrages that Jefferson committed in his life. If anybody doubts the paternal affection which George III felt for his American subjects, he should consider the conciliatory gestures of his Majesty in the Treaty of Paris in 1783, or the King's pressure on the House of Lords to assure repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766. On the other hand, Jefferson's rejection as President of the Monroe-Pinckney treaty led us into the War of 1812. If George III had turned his back to him, as Ellis' yarn would have us believe, Jefferson would have deserved the affront. But the event never happened, because Jefferson was accompanied by Adams, for whom George III had high regard.
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