Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-107.2.97.182-20130211102012/@comment-4839682-20130429213228

Rubelle wrote: he brought up james from a child, adopted him, so sufficiently can be assumed that he did care for him, in his own King  needs heir way, but still he did. While David joined much later, replacing his son so to speak. Also David did not last that long. He met Snow quite soon, and all the true love and helping princess abigail happened very soon and then he ran away. So George never really got to know David at all. He actually had more kingly qualities than James I believe, but we really never saw how much he and james interacted, if at all they did.

I still feel like his affection for James is deeper than just a "I need an heir" thing. I mean, he raised him. He was clearly deeply distraught when James died.