WI: Crazy King George had abdicated?

Having done some research on the Georgian era I came across a note that makes the claim that due to depression over the loss of Cornwallis army at Yorktown and the deteriorating political situation at home George III wrote up a notice of abdication. So I put it to you. Other then depriving us of another mad monarch to make fun of what would the effect of the abdication of the King of Great Britain/Ireland be?
 
He had a son. None
You may disagree but I think replacing a (eventually) fairly competent (if occasionally insane) monarch with one who runs his affairs like a bank and who's first act was to submit a bill to Parliament to bar his wife from becoming Queen may have an effect. Likely detrimental. Even if George IV turns out to be a competent ruler I think the fact that a revolt thousands of miles away shook the monarchy so hard that it forced an abdication will have some effects on the political makeup and worldview of Europe.
 

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*stands by for Captain Zed style "Did Not Do The Research" rant*

GEORGE III DID NOT SUFFER FROM MADNESS UNTIL 1784! :mad: YORKTOWN WAS IN 1781!
 
*stands by for Captain Zed style "Did Not Do The Research" rant*

GEORGE III DID NOT SUFFER FROM MADNESS UNTIL 1784! :mad: YORKTOWN WAS IN 1781!
Actually I swear I read somewhere that he had a mild episode sometime in the 1760s but I am fully aware that he didn't really go off the deep end until after the war. I just used "Crazy King George" because I think it is a much better title then George III. Whether he was bonkers when he considered abdication (I'd go with no though I think most of us would be depressed over losing two armies, a sizable chunk of our empire and having our government turn against us) is largely immaterial to the question of What If he had gone through with it?
 
He had a son. None

Yeah, he had a son, whose politics were completely different to his at this point, at a time when the monarch still had tremendous political influence.

The removal of George III at this period would mean politics in Britain (and, at some point, the wider world) would play out completely differently to those we know about.
 
If you are aware, you will know that his son was appointed regent when his father became ill. All the opposition politicians thought he would choose them. He kept his father's policies and government.

He wasn't a fool. It was virtuallu automatic that whilst both were in action as it were the Prince of Wales opposed the King. Different once the Prince of Wales was in power, he then thought of the country.
 
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