The Madness of King George The Madness of King George was written in 1781. It was the story of the struggle to gain power over the throne of England between a father and his son. King George was a very controlling man and liked to have complete control over everything he dealt with. King George and his wife had a good relationship, but he did not get along well with his son, the Prince of Wales. At the beginning of the American Revolution George began to have pains at night. William Pitt the Younger, the King's Prime Minister, put it off as stress due to George's lack of power over the Americas. Any time the Americas were brought up George had fits