Topzle Topzle

George V

Updated: Wikipedia source

George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. George was born during the reign of his paternal grandmother, Queen Victoria, as the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). He was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father, and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1892, George served in the Royal Navy, until his elder brother's unexpected death in January 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. The next year George married his brother's former fiancée, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, and they had six children. When Queen Victoria died in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became king-emperor on his father's death in 1910. George's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement. All of these developments radically changed the political landscape of the British Empire, which itself reached its territorial peak by the beginning of the 1920s. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World War, the empires of his first cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany fell, while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. He appointed the first Labour ministry in 1924, and the 1931 Statute of Westminster recognised the Empire's Dominions as separate, independent states within the British Commonwealth of Nations. George suffered from smoking-related health problems during his later reign. On his death in January 1936, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII. Edward abdicated in December of that year and was succeeded by his younger brother Albert, who took the regnal name George VI.

Infobox

Reign
6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
Coronation
22 June 1911
Imperial Durbar
12 December 1911
Predecessor
Edward VII
Successor
Edward VIII
Born
Prince George of Wales(1865-06-03)3 June 1865Marlborough House, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Died
20 January 1936(1936-01-20) (aged 70)Sandringham House, Norfolk, England
Burial
28 January 1936Royal Vault, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 27 February 1939North Nave Aisle, St George's Chapel
Spouse
mw- Mary of Teck (m. 1893)
IssueDetail
Edward VIII George VI Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Prince George, Duke of Kent Prince John
Names
NamesGeorge Frederick Ernest Albert
House
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (by birth) Windsor (founder)
Father
Edward VII
Mother
Alexandra of Denmark
Religion
Protestant[a]
Service
Royal Navy
Years of active service
1877–1892
Rank
Full list
Commands
Torpedo Boat 79 HMS Thrush HMS Melampus

Tables

· Issue
Date
Date
Name
Date
Birth
Spouse
Edward VIII(later Duke of Windsor)
Edward VIII(later Duke of Windsor)
Name
Edward VIII(later Duke of Windsor)
Birth
(1894-06-23)23 June 1894
Death
28 May 1972(1972-05-28) (aged 77)
Marriage
3 June 1937
Marriage
Wallis Simpson
Their children
None
George VI
George VI
Name
George VI
Birth
(1895-12-14)14 December 1895
Death
6 February 1952(1952-02-06) (aged 56)
Marriage
26 April 1923
Marriage
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Their children
Elizabeth II
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Name
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Mary, Princess Royal
Mary, Princess Royal
Name
Mary, Princess Royal
Birth
(1897-04-25)25 April 1897
Death
28 March 1965(1965-03-28) (aged 67)
Marriage
28 February 1922
Marriage
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
Their children
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
The Hon. Gerald Lascelles
The Hon. Gerald Lascelles
Name
The Hon. Gerald Lascelles
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Name
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Birth
(1900-03-31)31 March 1900
Death
10 June 1974(1974-06-10) (aged 74)
Marriage
6 November 1935
Marriage
Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott
Their children
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Name
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Name
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Birth
(1902-12-20)20 December 1902
Death
25 August 1942(1942-08-25) (aged 39)
Marriage
29 November 1934
Marriage
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
Their children
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Name
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Prince Michael of Kent
Prince Michael of Kent
Name
Prince Michael of Kent
Prince John
Prince John
Name
Prince John
Birth
(1905-07-12)12 July 1905
Death
18 January 1919(1919-01-18) (aged 13)
Marriage
None
Marriage
None
Name
Birth
Death
Marriage
Their children
Date
Spouse
Edward VIII(later Duke of Windsor)
(1894-06-23)23 June 1894
28 May 1972(1972-05-28) (aged 77)
3 June 1937
Wallis Simpson
None
George VI
(1895-12-14)14 December 1895
6 February 1952(1952-02-06) (aged 56)
26 April 1923
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth II
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Mary, Princess Royal
(1897-04-25)25 April 1897
28 March 1965(1965-03-28) (aged 67)
28 February 1922
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
The Hon. Gerald Lascelles
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
(1900-03-31)31 March 1900
10 June 1974(1974-06-10) (aged 74)
6 November 1935
Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Prince George, Duke of Kent
(1902-12-20)20 December 1902
25 August 1942(1942-08-25) (aged 39)
29 November 1934
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Prince Michael of Kent
Prince John
(1905-07-12)12 July 1905
18 January 1919(1919-01-18) (aged 13)
None
None
· External links
Regnal titles
Regnal titles
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Regnal titles
Preceded byEdward VII
Preceded byEdward VII
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Preceded byEdward VII
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
King of the United Kingdom and the British DominionsEmperor of India 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Succeeded byEdward VIII
British royalty
British royalty
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
British royalty
Preceded byAlbert Edward
Preceded byAlbert Edward
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Preceded byAlbert Edward
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Prince of WalesDuke of CornwallDuke of Rothesay 1901–1910
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Succeeded byEdward (VIII)
Honorary titles
Honorary titles
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Honorary titles
Preceded byThe Duke of Cambridge
Preceded byThe Duke of Cambridge
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Preceded byThe Duke of Cambridge
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Grand Master of the Order ofSt Michael and St George 1905–1910
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
VacantTitle next held byThe Prince of Wales
Preceded byThe Lord Curzon of Kedleston
Preceded byThe Lord Curzon of Kedleston
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Preceded byThe Lord Curzon of Kedleston
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1905–1907
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Succeeded byThe Earl Brassey
George V House of WindsorCadet branch of the House of WettinBorn: 3 June 1865 Died: 20 January 1936
Regnal titles
Preceded byEdward VII
King of the United Kingdom and the British DominionsEmperor of India 6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
Succeeded byEdward VIII
British royalty
Preceded byAlbert Edward
Prince of WalesDuke of CornwallDuke of Rothesay 1901–1910
Succeeded byEdward (VIII)
Honorary titles
Preceded byThe Duke of Cambridge
Grand Master of the Order ofSt Michael and St George 1905–1910
VacantTitle next held byThe Prince of Wales
Preceded byThe Lord Curzon of Kedleston
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1905–1907
Succeeded byThe Earl Brassey

References

  1. As monarch, George V was Supreme Governor of the Church of England. He was also a member of the Church of Scotland.
  2. His godparents were the King of Hanover (Queen Victoria's cousin, for whom Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach stood p
  3. Vernon Bogdanor argues that George V played a crucial and active role in the political crisis of August–October 1931, an
  4. Morning Herald (London)
    https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002408/18650603/022/0005
  5. The Times (London), Saturday, 8 July 1865, p. 12.
  6. Clay, p. 39; Sinclair, pp. 46–47
  7. Sinclair, pp. 49–50
  8. Clay, p. 71; Rose, p. 7
  9. Rose, p. 13
  10. Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his world, 1852–1912
  11. Montefiore, p. 436
  12. Rose, p. 14; Sinclair, p. 55
  13. Rose, p. 11
  14. Clay, p. 92; Rose, pp. 15–16
  15. Sinclair, p. 69
  16. Pope-Hennessy, pp. 250–251
  17. Rose, pp. 22–23
  18. Rose, p. 29
  19. Rose, pp. 20–21, 24
  20. Pope-Hennessy, pp. 230–231
  21. Sinclair, p. 178
  22. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F33369
  23. Clay, p. 149
  24. Clay, p. 150; Rose, p. 35
  25. Rose, pp. 53–57; Sinclair, p. 93 ff
  26. Vickers, ch. 18
  27. Renamed from Bachelor's Cottage
  28. Clay, p. 154; Nicolson, p. 51; Rose, p. 97
  29. Harold Nicolson's diary quoted in Sinclair, p. 107
  30. Nicolson's Comments 1944–1948, quoted in Rose, p. 42
  31. The Royal Philatelic Collection
    http://www.royal.gov.uk/The%20Royal%20Collection%20and%20other%20collections/TheRoyalPhilatelicCollection/History.aspx
  32. Clay, p. 167
  33. Rose, pp. 22, 208–209
  34. Rose, p. 42
  35. Rose, pp. 44–45
  36. South African Historical Journal
    https://doi.org/10.1080%2F02582479908671897
  37. Rose, pp. 43–44
  38. New Zealand Journal of History
  39. Rose, p. 45
  40. The London Gazette
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27375/page/7289
  41. Previous Princes of Wales
    https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/titles-and-heraldry
  42. Clay, p. 244; Rose, p. 52
  43. Rose, p. 289
  44. Sinclair, p. 107
  45. Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
  46. Rose, pp. 61–66
  47. Rose, pp. 67–68
  48. King George V's diary, 6 May 1910, Royal Archives, quoted in Rose, p. 75
  49. Pope-Hennessy, p. 421; Rose, pp. 75–76
  50. Rose, pp. 82–84
  51. Secularisation in the Christian World
    https://books.google.com/books?id=OXhovNnt76QC&pg=PA63
  52. The Daily Telegraph
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180418083422/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8121389/How-George-V-was-received-by-the-Irish-in-1911.html
  53. Irish Examiner
    http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/the-queen-in-2011-the-king-in-1911-154342.html
  54. Rose, p. 136
  55. Rose, pp. 39–40
  56. Rose, p. 87; Windsor, pp. 86–87
  57. Rose, p. 115
  58. Rose, pp. 112–114
  59. Rose, p. 114
  60. Rose, pp. 116–121
  61. Rose, pp. 121–122
  62. Rose, pp. 120, 141
  63. History Today
  64. Rose, pp. 121–125
  65. Rose, pp. 125–130
  66. Rose, p. 123
  67. Rose, p. 137
  68. Rose, pp. 141–143
  69. Rose, pp. 152–153, 156–157
  70. Rose, p. 157
  71. Rose, p. 158
  72. Nicolson, p. 247
  73. Nicolson, p. 308
  74. The London Gazette
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30186/page/7119
  75. Rose, pp. 174–175
  76. Nicolson, p. 310
  77. Clay, p. 326; Rose, p. 173
  78. Nicolson, p. 301; Rose, pp. 210–215; Sinclair, p. 148
  79. Rose, p. 210
  80. The Sunday Times
  81. Sinclair, p. 149
  82. Diary, 25 July 1918, quoted in Clay, p. 344 and Rose, p. 216
  83. Clay, pp. 355–356
  84. Pope-Hennessy, p. 511
  85. The Letters of Rudyard Kipling 1920–30
    https://archive.org/details/lettersofrudyard0006kipl/page/120
  86. Rose, p. 294
  87. International Studies Quarterly
    http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3cn68807
  88. The Daily Telegraph
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8616240/Archduke-Otto-von-Habsburg.html
  89. Rose, pp. 347–348
  90. Nicolson, p. 347; Rose, pp. 238–241; Sinclair, p. 114
  91. Mowat, p. 84
  92. Mowat, p. 86
  93. Mowat, pp. 89–93
  94. Mowat, pp. 106–107, 119
  95. Twentieth Century British History
    https://doi.org/10.1093%2Ftcbh%2F10.1.27
  96. Social History
    https://doi.org/10.1080%2F0307102042000337297
  97. Nicolson, p. 419; Rose, pp. 341–342
  98. Rose, p. 340; Sinclair, p. 105
  99. Rose, p. 348
  100. Statute of Westminster 1931
    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/22-23/4/introduction
  101. Rose, pp. 373–379
  102. Twentieth Century British History
    https://doi.org/10.1093%2Ftcbh%2F2.1.1
  103. Twentieth Century British History
    https://doi.org/10.1093%2Ftcbh%2F2.3.328
  104. Nicolson, pp. 521–522; Owens, pp. 92–93; Rose, p. 388
  105. Nicolson, pp. 521–522; Rose, p. 388
  106. Sinclair p. 154
  107. Sinclair, p. 1
  108. The Queen
  109. King Edward VIII: The Official Biography
  110. Rose, p. 392
  111. Windsor, pp. 118–119
  112. Rose, pp. 301, 344
  113. The Indian Medical Gazette
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5164308
  114. Ziegler, pp. 192–196
  115. Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham, to Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, 9 July 1929, quoted in Nicolson p. 433
  116. Pope-Hennessy, p. 546; Rose, pp. 359–360
  117. The House of Windsor
  118. The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens
  119. Rose, pp. 360–361
  120. King George VI
  121. Pope-Hennessy, p. 558
  122. The Times (London), 22 January 1936, p. 7, col. A
  123. The Times (London), 21 January 1936, p. 12, col. A
  124. Rose, p. 402
  125. History Today
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11645856
  126. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/28/world/1936-secret-is-out-doctor-sped-george-v-s-death.html
  127. British Medical Journal
    https://doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmj.308.6941.1445
  128. Sandringham Days: The Domestic Life of the Royal Family in Norfolk,1862–1952
    https://books.google.com/books?id=Ut8SDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT176
  129. Observer-Reporter
    https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19861128&id=bkZiAAAAIBAJ&pg=2197,3764364
  130. The death of His Majesty King George V 1936
    http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-death-of-his-majesty-king-george-v
  131. The Concerto
    https://books.google.com/books?id=t8oXNX2tY8AC&q=werner+reinhart&pg=PA213
  132. Windsor, p. 267
  133. The Times (London), Tuesday, 28 January 1936, p. 10, col. F
  134. Rose, pp. 404–405
  135. The London Gazette
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34350/page/8117
  136. Finances of the Monarchy
    https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9807/CBP-9807.pdf
  137. George and Marina: Duke and Duchess of Kent
  138. George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy
  139. King Edward VIII
    https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780517095157/page/214/mode/2up
  140. Rose, p. 318
  141. The Kings and Queens of England
  142. Clay, p. 245; Gore, p. 293; Nicolson, pp. 33, 141, 510, 517
  143. The Transformation of British Politics, 1860–1995
  144. Gore, pp. x, 116
  145. History in our Time
  146. Fortune
  147. Rose, p. 328
  148. Harrison, pp. 51, 327
  149. Velde, François (19 April 2008), "Marks of Cadency in the British Royal Family" Archived 17 March 2018 at the Wayback Ma
    http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/cadency.htm
  150. Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe
Image
Source: —
Tip: Wheel or +/− to zoom, drag to pan, Esc to close.