American Revolution?

[Red Harvest]

The King was a figure head and could potentially lose it quite easily after Cromwell...

I still get the impression in reading various accounts that the King had far more than just ceremonial power and influence at the time. While unable to be a despot, the Kings still appears to have had more power than a figurehead. Today, the Royals are truly figureheads.

I've not studied that period of British history closely enough (looked a bit at Scotland, U.S. and France in the time period though.) I realize the general effect Cromwell had, but it wasn't complete yet. I still laugh about the revenge taken in exhuming Cromwell and others to draw and quarter their bodies.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I still get the impression in reading various accounts that the King had far more than just ceremonial power and influence at the time. While unable to be a despot, the Kings still appears to have had more power than a figurehead. Today, the Royals are truly figureheads.

I've not studied that period of British history closely enough (looked a bit at Scotland, U.S. and France in the time period though.) I realize the general effect Cromwell had, but it wasn't complete yet. I still laugh about the revenge taken in exhuming Cromwell and others to draw and quarter their bodies.

If you read the wiki on George III, it is clear that he had some influence in political affairs, even though it was secondary to his PM's cabinet, to which he would defer even when he held a different viewpoint. Also, the monarch's role in appointing a PM was, at the time, not entirely a consequence of voting by the electorate the monarch could exert some degree of choice. All in all, at least prior to his madness surfacing in the late 1780s, it would seem that George III must be noted as an influencer of government decisions albeit not the deciding voice.