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Subject: masonic america
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jlh1182 23.10.11 - 06:58pm
King George III (1738-1820) is probably best known to Americans as being the monarch who lost the American colony. However, American Freemasons should remember him for other important reasons. * +

so_sassy 23.10.11 - 07:01pm
again? * +

fireyes 23.10.11 - 07:01pm
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jlh1182 23.10.11 - 07:04pm
King Georges father was a Freemason. Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), was heir to the throne of his father King George II. Frederick Lewis was of paramount importance because he was the first Royal Freemason. * +

jlh1182 23.10.11 - 07:05pm
Once royalty entered the Craft, then everybody wanted to join, and the fraternity was assured of success. Frederick Lewis led a hedonistic lifestyle and died before his father, thrusting his son George III onto the thrones of England and Hanover in 1760 at the age of 20. * +

jlh1182 23.10.11 - 07:07pm
Three of King George's brothers followed their father Frederick Lewis into Freemasonry, including Henry, Duke of c*mberland (1745-1790) who in 1782 became Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England. * +

jlh1182 23.10.11 - 07:09pm
Strangely, although his father and three uncles were Freemasons, and all his sons joined the Craft, George III never became a Mason. A Gold guinea of King George III, depicted in the style of a Roman emperor. The legend in Latin, reads Georgius III Dei Gratia George III by the grace of God. * +

zeroload 23.10.11 - 07:13pm
at least he sorted out who was the first royal freemason * +

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