Eight curious facts about King George V of England

1. When George was still in the status of a prince, he became an ardent philatelist. For his collection, for a long time he could not acquire one of the rarest stamps in the world - "Blue Mauritius". In 1904, the Prince of Wales succeeded. At the auction in Brussels, Georg arrived incognito and took with him a clean (unused) copy of "Blue Mauritius" for £1,400, which is equivalent to today's $200,000, although today this stamp is valued at $15,000,000.

2. George and his wife Victoria Mary of Teck were crowned at Westminster on May 22, 1911. At the same time, the newly-made wife of the king began to be called Queen Mary, despite the fact that her first name was Victoria. This name was not given to her. In memory of George's late grandmother, Queen Victoria, it was decided that henceforth no queen of England would bear that name.

3. Once, enraged by something, George V slammed his fist on the dining table during dinner. After that, he cursed loudly and issued a decree that the forks should be placed on the table with the prongs down. This is how this well-known rule of table etiquette appeared.

4. Cousins - George V and Nicholas II - were very similar. About the case associated with this feature in his book "Nicholas and Alexandra" wrote the American Robert Macy in the late 1960s. So, in July 1893, at the wedding of the Duke of York, the future George V, and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, Russia and the House of Romanov were represented by the Heir Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich, the future Nicholas II. The future Russian Emperor spoke English so well that, given the outward resemblance to his brother, many guests mistook him for the Duke of York and congratulated him on his legal marriage. Meanwhile, the groom himself, who was mistaken for Nikolai, was approached at the same time with questions about the purpose of his visit to London and future plans.

5. It is known that after the overthrow and death of Nicholas II, George V acquired the treasures of the Russian Imperial House almost for nothing, and simply appropriated some of them.

6. The most beautifully made dollhouse in the world was presented to his wife Queen Mary by George V. The house was first shown to the public in 1924, when the British Imperial Exhibition was held in London. Now it is stored in Windsor. The house was created under the guidance of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is made on a scale of one to twelve. It has more than 40 rooms, electric lighting, two elevators, cold and hot water, a miniature vacuum cleaner and a coal-burning stove. Outside, the house is a mansion in the classical tradition. There are gardens with metallic flowers. The house also has a library with specially created paintings. In the dining room there is a table 50 centimeters long. The largest room is the hall, in which there is a throne and a huge piano.

8. George V died at Sandringham after a long illness. But only 50 years later it became known that his personal physician, Baron Bertrand Dawson, on his own initiative, euthanized the king, who had fallen into a coma after severe bronchitis, by personally injecting him with morphine and cocaine.

Why King George V did not save Emperor Nicholas II November 11th, 2017

During the February Revolution of 1917, Nicholas II signed the abdication of the throne. In return for this, the Provisional Government promised him and his family unhindered travel abroad.

Later, the head of the Provisional Government A.F. Kerensky assured: “As for the evacuation of the royal family, we decided to send them through Murmansk to London. In March 1917, they received the consent of the British government, but in July, when everything was ready for the train to Murmansk and Foreign Minister Tereshchenko sent a telegram to London asking him to send a ship to meet the royal family, the British ambassador received a clear answer from Prime Minister Lloyd George: The British Government, unfortunately, cannot accept the royal family as guests during the war."

Instead of Murmansk, the imperial family was sent to Tobolsk, because anarchist sentiments intensified in the capital and the Bolsheviks rushed to power. As you know, after the overthrow of the Provisional Government, the new leaders felt that the Romanovs should be physically destroyed.

So why was the Tsar not received in England?

Assessing the situation, the historian and writer Gennady Sokolov said: “Kerensky did not dissemble, he did not whitewash himself with hindsight. The declassified documents fully confirm his words.”

The Romanovs were actually supposed to go to England, because during the First World War, both countries were considered allies, and members of the royal and imperial families were not strangers to each other. George V was a cousin of both Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Feodorovna.

From left to right, Prince Edward of Wales, Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei and the future King George V, 1909. | Photo: regnum.ru.

George V wrote to his cousin: “Yes, my dearest Nicky, I hope that we will always continue our friendship with you; you know, I am unchanged, and I have always loved you so much ... In my thoughts I am constantly with you. God bless you, my dear old Nicky, and remember that you can always count on me as your friend. Forever your devoted friend, Georgie."

On March 22, 1917, the Cabinet of Ministers of Great Britain decided to "grant the Emperor and Empress asylum in England for the time being while the war is going on." A week later, George V began to behave in a completely different way, as he wrote to "old Nicky." He doubted the advisability of the arrival of the Romanovs in England, and the path is dangerous ...

On April 2, 1917, the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, expressed his surprise to the king that the monarch should not back down, since the ministers had already decided to invite the Romanovs.

But George V persisted and a couple of days later he wrote to the Foreign Minister: "Instruct Ambassador Buchanan to tell Milyukov that we must withdraw our consent to the proposal of the Russian government." In the afterword, he emphasized that it was not the king who invited the imperial family, but the British government.

In May 1917, the Russian Foreign Ministry received a new order from the British Ambassador stating that "The British Government cannot advise His Majesty to extend hospitality to people whose sympathies for Germany are more than well known." Played into the hands and propaganda against Nicholas II and his wife, who, as you know, was a German by birth. The closest relative left his cousin to the mercy of fate, and the sad ending of this story is known to everyone.

Some historians explained this position of George V in relation to the Romanovs by the fact that he was afraid of a revolution in Great Britain, since the workers' unions were very sympathetic to the Bolsheviks. The disgraced imperial family could only worsen the situation. In order to save the throne, "Georgie" decided to sacrifice his cousin.

But if the surviving documents are to be believed, the king's secretary wrote to the English ambassador Berthier in Paris: "This was the firm conviction of the king, who never wanted it." That is, from the very beginning, George V did not want the Romanovs to move to England. Yes, and Russia has always been considered a geopolitical rival of Great Britain.

It is not for nothing that the poet of the Silver Age, Nikolai Wentzel, in 1902 created a poem in which the following lines sounded:

The poem was, to a certain extent, politicized. Since it subtly noticed the attitude of the thinking intelligentsia to the wife of Nicholas II, who was married to a lady who had a hereditary relationship to the English royal court.
But the expression was not invented by Wentzel, but, they say, by Suvorov or someone a little later. This aphorism is not the author's. But some English person was meant, most likely - Queen Victoria. And Wentzel handled these words well.
Since then, this popular expression has been used when they wanted to say "he (a) conceived (a) some secret intrigues and is slowly putting them into practice."

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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna) and the great-granddaughter of Louis-Philippe I, Elena of Orleans (to whom Tsarevich Nicholas, later the Duchess of Aosta, also wooed). In 1891, Clarence was engaged to Mary of Teck (Princess May), to whom he had sincere feelings, but at the beginning of the next year, much to the shock of his parents and grandmother, he died during an influenza epidemic, a week after his twenty-eight birthday and a month and a half before the appointed weddings.

Both his brother's bride and his rights to the throne went to George, who received the title of Duke of York four months later; in 1893 he married Mary of Teck, in 1901 he became the Prince of Wales, and in 1910 - King George V.

I missed this moment that Albert wooed Alice of Hesse.

Prince_Albert_Victor_Duke_of_Clarence and Alice of Hesse, first bride.

And it's also interesting with Alix .. Here she is with this Viktor.
By the way, this is the first time I see her happy))

Prince_Albert_Victor_Duke_of_Clarence and Mary of Teck are the second bride.

One of Albert's brides, Alice of Hesse, passes to Nicholas (George), and Albert's second bride: Maria of Teck, passes by inheritance to George (Nicholas).

But Albert Victor dies and his brides are inherited:

First: Alice of Hesse goes to Nicholas 2 (George 5)

Nicholas 2 (George 5) and Albert's fiancee: Alice of Hesse, who became the wife of Nicholas 2 (George 5) by TI.

The second bride of Albert: Maria Tekskaya after the death of Albert Victor is inherited by his younger brother George 5 (Nicholas 2).

George 5 (Nicholas 2) with the bride of his older brother Albert Victor: Mary of Teck.

But ... Nicholas 2 (Georg 5) - the German emperor at the time of 1910, this is the same person: the son of Bertie (Alexander) - Karl of Holstein-Gottorp, who later turned out to be Natti Rothschild 1st.

How can this be in real life?

That is, his wife must be the same, because it is one and the same person.

Either this is Alice of Hesse, who marries George V, aka Nicholas II in Soviet translations from German.

Either this is Maria of Tekskaya marrying Nicholas II, aka George V in English translation from German.

When was the wedding in London with Nicholas II (George V) in the English version?

Country of Origin: UK
Event: Wedding medal commemorating the marriage of Georg Friedrich Ernst Albert, Duke of York, and Victoria Maria of Teck, Princess of Baden-Württemberg
Type / Shape / Year of minting: Medal / Circle / 1893
Material / Diameter / Weight: Bronze / 51.00 mm / 56.50 gr
Hallmarks: no hallmarks
Medalists: SPINK & SON

Legend 2:
MARRIED AT CHAPEL ROYAL JAMES'S PALACE 6 JULE 1893

George V (June 3, 1865 - January 20, 1936) - 9th King of Great Britain and Emperor of India from the Windsor dynasty. He was on the throne from May 6, 1910 until his death. He was the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra).

Now the wedding of Nicholas 2 (George 5) on Alice of Hesse:

On November 14 (26), 1894 (on the birthday of Empress Maria Feodorovna, which allowed retreat from mourning), the wedding of Alexandra and Nicholas II took place in the Great Church of the Winter Palace. After the marriage, a thanksgiving service was served by members of the Holy Synod, headed by Metropolitan Pallady (Raev) of St. Petersburg; while singing "To you, God, we praise" a cannon salute was given in 301 shots.

We remember that Maria Fedorovna, aka Dagmar of Denmark, like the mother of Nicholas 2 (George 5), and her kind of sister Alexandra of Denmark, like the mother of George 5 (Nicholas 2) are one and the same character: Emma removed from all sources of information Louise Rothschild, from whom they made two characters: Alexandra of Denmark and Dagmar of Denmark. That is, the link to the mother does not work.

The father of Nicholas 2 (George 5) is also the same person: Edward VII, aka Alexander III.

There are no photos from the wedding of Nicholas 2 (George 5) and Alice of Hesse. Some pictures. And this is 1894, when cameras have been around for a long time and such an event as the wedding of the son of the sovereign emperor, if it took place, should have been immortalized by court photographers for numerous foreign relatives, as well as the European and Russian press in the gossip department.

Although the wedding photographs of George 5 (Nicholas 2) in the English archives are:

Although both weddings were almost simultaneously: the marriage of George and Mary in the royal chapel of St. James's Palace was July 6, 1893. The wedding of Nicholas and Alice took place on November 14, 1894.

There are photos from one wedding of Nikolai (George), but there are no photos from the other wedding.

It's the same story with crowns. In the English archives there are photographs of George and his wife in crowns. There are no photographs of Nikolai (George) and his wife Alice of Hesse in crowns in the Russian archives. In the Russian version, Nikolai 2 (Georg 5), as well as his father Alexander 3 (Eduard 7), are depicted in military uniforms in almost all photographs, as professional soldiers serving in the army.

In the English version, George 5 (Nicholas 2) has an older brother: Albert Victor, who died at 28 and left his younger brother by inheritance both the crown and his bride, complete. As if without this bride they did not give him a crown. It's also a strange detail. Why marry your older brother's ex-fiancee? Were there no brides?

What was the reason for forcing the younger son to marry the bride of the dead eldest son? Or, indeed, the crown was not given without Mary of Teck, born from a morganatic marriage and not entitled to the throne and crown?

If the crown is mine, then to whom I want, I give it to him. And why should I force my son to marry his elder brother's failed bride? The crown is mine. And a kingdom of my own. And I don't give a damn about a constitutional monarchy in the English kingdom if I'm the king. Logically, yes.

We look at the elder brother Nicholas 2 (George 6) in Russian translation.

Wife: Dagmar of Denmark (November 14 (26), 1847 - October 13, 1928), daughter of the Danish king Christian IX, after converting to Orthodoxy Maria Feodorovna. Children:
1. Nikolai Alexandrovich (May 6 (18), 1868 - July 17, 1918, Yekaterinburg), since 1894 Emperor Nicholas II
2. Alexander Alexandrovich (May 26 (June 7), 1869 - April 20 (May 2), 1870, St. Petersburg)
3. Georgy Alexandrovich (April 27 (May 9), 1871 - June 28 (July 10), 1899, Abastumani)
4. Ksenia Alexandrovna (March 25 (April 6), 1875 - April 20, 1960, London)
5. Mikhail Alexandrovich (November 22 (December 4), 1878 - June 13, 1918, Perm)
6. Olga Alexandrovna (June 1 (13), 1882 - November 24, 1960, Toronto)

In the English version, George 5 (Nicholas 2) has an older brother: Albert Victor, who died at 28 and left his younger brother by inheritance both the crown and his bride, complete.

In the Russian translation of the Windsors into the Romanovs, Nicholas 2 (George 5) did not have an older brother.

Little lies breed big mistrust.

We look at doubles in pairs:

Alexander III = Edward VII

Dagmar of Denmark = Alexandra of Denmark

Nicholas II = George V

Alice of Hesse = Mary of Teck

That is, Mary of Teck is a literary counterpart of Alice of Hesse.

It would seem that everything is simple. Romanovs and Windsors before 1917 are two versions of the biography of the same man. If he is George 5 of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who in 1917 renounced all German titles and his German surname of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha because he liked being Windsor 1st, the founder of the Windsor dynasty, then there were no those literary characters Romanovs: Germans, bandits and hoards. Just the same bandits as the Bolsheviks. What is easier?

We are renaming all the Romanovs as Windsors until 1917 and rewriting the History of the State again.

True, not only Nicholas II of Holstein-Gottorp will have to be rewritten as George V of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, but Alexandra Feodorovna will also have to be renamed again into Mary of Teck. With all the ensuing consequences.

And it’s good to think about the possibility of Prince Harry appearing in the role of a new sovereign-emperor, as a descendant of George V and Mary of Teck: Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

The history of the State is also the history of state power. And the Soviets get it German: from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Queen Victoria.

Because all Holstein-Gottorp are modern Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, since 1917: Windsor.

And we returned to Germany 1871-1945. : and Hitler is so young, and Stalin is still ahead.
And after the Division of defeated Germany, you will wake up in the British Empire of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, since 1917: Windsors.

If not for one "but" ...

An extra relative of Nicholas 2 in the English version of his own biography .

If Nicholas 2 (George 5) does not have an extra relative: Prince Albert Victor, then there are no two abandoned brides: Alice of Hesse and Mary of Teck.

More precisely, Alice remains in any scenario: is there an extra relative there or not?

She marries Nikolai (George), regardless of whether he has an older brother or not.

And if we remove Albert Victor, then nothing changes for Alice.

Everything changes only for Mary of Teck.

Albert Victor is gone, and his fiancee Maria Tekskaya immediately disappears. And that means no husband, no crown, no Windsor dynasty.

As long as it does.

This is the moment I somehow missed. So I had to go back to him.

Am I wrong or not? Will show the future. Because we still have to understand and understand this heap of literary hoaxes and the rewritten History of the State.

On May 24, 1890, Albert was created Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Earl of Athlone. He began to prepare for acquiring a family: the candidates for his bride were Alice of Hesse (the future Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna) and the great-granddaughter of Louis Philippe I Elena of Orleans (to whom Tsarevich Nicholas, later the Duchess of Aosta, also wooed). In 1891, Clarence was engaged to Mary of Teck (Princess May), to whom he had sincere feelings, but at the beginning of the next year, much to the shock of his parents and grandmother, he died during an influenza epidemic, a week after his twenty-eight birthday and a month and a half before the appointed weddings.

It made me come back again and look at the situation from a different angle. We are now in the process of restoring the History of the State, and here we will have to consider different options, because there are a lot of these options mixed into one pile. It's like unwinding a ball of tangled threads. There is no need to be afraid that nothing will work out the first time, and new information will make its own adjustments. That's the way it should be. We now operate only with the information that we could find. There will be new information and there will be new clarifications. But we also have to work out all these versions from the Obmanovs. Because we don't want mistakes. We want to know the truth, what was really there?

The exact same situation was with the father of Nicholas (George) - Alexander III (Eduard VII) in his youth and with his wife: Dagmar of Denmark, who was supposed to go to his older brother along with the crown, but went to him.

Everything is so confusing that the head is spinning and, due to the number of repetitions, nothing fits in the brain.

01. So, the Russian version with Alexander III.

His older brother Niksa was supposed to marry Dagmar of Denmark, but Niksa dies and his bride Dagmar, along with the crown, is inherited by Alexander III.

And the same story is repeated in Albert Victor Clarence: he was also to marry Mary of Teck, and he dies in the same way. And his younger brother George V (Nicholas II) marries his bride.

Albert Victor Clarence and Mary of Teck

George V (Nicholas II) and Mary of Teck.

In this case, Albert Victor Clarence and George V are a literary hoax, because as Nicholas II he had already married Alice of Hesse.

You even call him Nicholas, even George, even the Pope, but he is still married to Alice of Hesse.

Maria of Teck was left without a husband.

But these three characters: Niksa, Alexander III and Edward VII turned out to be the same character in their genealogies: Karl of Holstein-Gottorp, he is Natty Rothschild, 1st Baron.

And their wives (brides) Alexandra and Dagmar Danish, Glucksburg, according to their pedigrees, turned out to be one and the same character.

And then Mary of Teck, Albert Victor Clarence and George V (Nicholas II) are just duplicates of Nixa, Alexander III, Edward VII, Alexandra and Dagmar of Denmark. They are all literary hoaxes.

The older brother dies, and his younger brother inherits his wife and the throne.
As we can see, the writers in search of a plot did not particularly strain. The same story is repeated. And photographs can be drawn. We have already seen this Photoshop so much that it should no longer confuse us.

We walked on faces, but only got confused. You can only go by pedigree and family ties. Faking photos is easy. But to fake pedigrees and family ties is very difficult, almost impossible.

These blanks for creating photographs were found in the Russian state film and photo archive after the Soviet regime. And with such capacities as the film and photo industry of the 20th century, it was possible to create any archives. And when the Internet and computer graphics appeared, the creation of more and more new archives of the 19th century did not arise.

That's why I said: photographs are very good, but all this must match the genealogies and the seizure of state power in 1853-1921. And of course, with Soviet power and the realities of the 20th century.

A correctly written History of the State should explain to us what is happening now, based on the events of at least 1853-1953. Because before 1853 there is no information at all. Everything is destroyed there. The only thing that is visible is 1853-1953. And then we ourselves can know, since the second half of the 20th century is closer to us and we know about it ourselves, without historians.

Nicholas II had a striking resemblance to his cousin, the British King George V.

Nicholas II "Cousin Nicky" and George V "Cousin Georgie"

Nicholas II and George V

King George, 1893

Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, visits England for the wedding of King George V and Queen Mary. 1893

The fact is that their mothers are sisters:
- Princess Dagmar - after marriage, Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III and mother of Nicholas II
- Princess Alexandra of Denmark - wife of King Edward VII and mother of George V.
They were daughters of Christian IX of Denmark.

Ilya Savich Galkin
Emperor Nicholas II in a white uniform with epaulettes.
1896

Luke Fildes
George V when Prince of Wales, painting by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes
1892

Empress Maria Feodorovna with her sister Alexandra of Wales.

From 1842 Christian was married to Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817-1898), niece of King Christian VIII. The couple had six children:
Frederik (1843-1912), King Frederik VIII of Denmark from 1906 to 1912;
Alexandra (1844-1925), married to King Edward VII of Great Britain;
George (1845-1913), King George I of Greece from 1863 to 1913;
Dagmara (1847-1928), married to Russian Emperor Alexander III;
Tyra (1853-1933), married to Prince Ernst August II of Hanover;
Valdemar (1858-1939), was married to Marie d'Orléans (1865-1909).
King Christian was in close family ties with the royal houses of Europe. He was the father of two kings - his successor Frederick VIII and King George I of Greece, Queen Alexandra of Britain, wife of Edward VII, and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Alexander III.
Christian was thus the grandfather of Nicholas II, who called him in his diary Apapaʹ ("Grandfather", a French childish word). Among other grandchildren of Christian - Constantine I of Greece, George V of Great Britain, Haakon VII of Norway.
Christian and Louise were called "father-in-law" and "mother-in-law of Europe".
Now most of the monarchs of Europe are direct descendants of Christian IX.

Nicholas II, King George V of Great Britain, King Albert I of Belgium (left to right). 1914.

The last Russian autocrat Emperor Nicholas II and the British monarch George V, being cousins (in their private correspondence they addressed each other only as "cousin Nicky" and "cousin Georgie"), were extremely similar in appearance.

Solomon Joseph Solomon
King George V.
National Portrait Gallery 1914

American Robert Macy in the famous bestseller of the late 1960s. "Nikolai and Alexandra" gives a very curious episode, once again testifying to the external similarity of the two brothers.
In July 1893, at the wedding of the future George V (at that time he was the Duke of York) and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, Russia and the House of Romanov were represented by the Heir Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich, i.e. the future Nicholas II. The latter's English was so good and his outward resemblance to the groom so striking that many guests, mistaking him for the Duke of York, congratulated him on his legal marriage, and some official asked him, as the groom, not to be late for the wedding ceremony scheduled for tomorrow. And George himself, who was mistakenly taken for Nicholas, at the same time was approached with questions about the purpose of his visit to London and future plans.

Henrich Matveevich Manizer

Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II.
1896.

But their resemblance was only superficial. On the one hand, the straightforward, trusting Nikolai, who always came to the aid of his cousin in personal and state affairs. On the other hand, Georg, who betrayed him.

E. K. Lipgart. Portrait of Nicholas II. 1914

As a result of World War I, the February Revolution took place in Russia, and George's cousin, Nicholas II, was forced to sign an abdication. In return, he was promised the opportunity to freely travel to England with the whole family.
When Nicholas II abdicated and was arrested with his family by the Provisional Government, he could save the royal family by giving them permission to enter England. If you wanted to. But he didn't want to. Apparently, realizing that he was dooming his brother to death with the help of the English ambassador to Russia, George Buchanan, who later admitted that pressure was put on him.
Alexander Kerensky honestly tried to fulfill his promise. He twice appealed to the English ambassador Buchanan with a request to give the royal family asylum in England and send an English battleship to meet him. To which Buchanan replied that he would not distract such a trifling request from the sovereign, because his country, in such difficult conditions, was not up to some kind of Russian tsar.
Already retired, Buchanan admitted that he was under pressure. Georg simply chickened out, or did not want to have the Russian Empire as a competitor, and made sure that it would never be revived.

Lance Calkin
King George V
National Portrait Gallery circa 1914

It is curious that the British government destroyed all documents and telegrams containing a categorical refusal to allow the royal family to enter England. And if it were not for the memories of the British embassy staff, the British would still make a surprised look.

Ilya Efimovich Repin Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. 1895

George V

Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II.

Photo of A. A. Pasetti of Tsar Nicholas II, at the age of 30, in St. Petersburg, 1898.

Valentin Alexandrovich Serov
Portrait of Nicholas II. 1900
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

And Makovsky. 1903
Portrait of Nicholas II

Portrait of Nicholas II. 1894

George Becker. Portrait of Nicholas II. around 1900

King George V
1911

King George, 1893

Samuel Luke Fields (1843-1927) - George V (1865-1936) - 9th King of the British Empire
in the coronation of clothes. 1911

Series of messages "

George V.

George V (George V). 1865–1936 King of England, Emperor of India, cousin of Nicholas II; Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces; after the overthrow of the Tsar, he was unable to provide him with any help, refused to give permission for the entry of the Royal Family into England.

The reference apparatus of the book was used: Multatuli P.V. “God bless my decision ...” - St. Petersburg: Satis, 2002.

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George V (3.VI.1865 - 20.1.1936) - the king [of England] (since 1910), a representative of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty, renamed in July 1917, during the 1st World War, into the Windsor dynasty.

Soviet historical encyclopedia. In 16 volumes. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia. 1973-1982. Volume 4. THE HAGUE - DVIN. 1963.

George V.
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George V
George Frederick Ernest Albert
George Frederick Ernest Albert
Years of life: June 3, 1865 - January 20, 1936
Reigns: May 6, 1910 - January 20, 1936
Father: Edward VII
Mother: Alexandra Danish
Wife: Victoria Maria Tek
Sons: Edward George VI Heinrich, George Kent, John
Daughter: Maria

George from childhood was distinguished by poor health, and at the age of 10 his parents sent him on a sea voyage. Georg sailed on the ship for 14 years without a break. All this time, he obeyed the daily routine for the cadets and endured all the hardships of the service of the ship's cabin boy. He traveled around the globe, visited many British colonies, acquired the habits of a sailor, numerous tattoos on his body and even a parrot. However, realizing the narrowness of his education, upon returning home he attended a course of lectures at the universities of Heidelberg and Lausanne.

In 1893 George married the Duke of Teck's daughter, known as Princess May. A year later, he received the title of Duke of York. George and Mary were crowned at Westminster on May 22, 1911, and George's wife became known as Queen Mary, despite the fact that her first name was Victoria. In memory of the king's late grandmother, it was decided that henceforth no queen of England would bear this name. After the coronation, the king and queen went to India, where they were presented to the Indian princes in Delhi as emperor and empress. During this trip, George was fond of hunting tigers and pheasants, neglecting many of the planned official events.

George ascended the throne on the eve of the First World War. The war years were very difficult for the royal family, since both George and Mary had many relatives in Germany, against which England had to fight. To emphasize his patriotism, on July 17, 1917, George announced the change of the royal surname from the German one, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to the English one, Windsor. Also, the closest relatives of the king from among the Germans changed their surnames to English ones, having received the corresponding titles of peers. So his cousin Ludwig Battenberg became the Marquess of Milford Haven, and his brother-in-law the Duke of Teck became the Marquess of Cambridge. Members of the royal family who took the side of Germany, on the contrary, were deprived of their titles.
After the war, many European monarchies began to decline. Kings were overthrown in Austria, Spain, Greece, Romania, Russia. All former monarchs, his relatives, George cordially received in England. In England itself, the position of the king was quite strong, except for Ireland, where a national liberation uprising broke out, as a result of which Britain was forced to recognize the independence of part of the island. From 1927 George changed his title to "King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

As mentioned above, since childhood, George had weak lungs. With age, the situation worsened due to tobacco smoking. War and revolutions in European countries further undermined George's health. He retired to West Sussex, closer to the sea, but nevertheless lived to see the 25th anniversary of his reign.

Unlike his father, Georg loved a simple life, without excessive luxury. Georg preferred solitude, rarely went to theaters, but he loved music and sports. He raised his children in strictness and unquestioning obedience to elders. The king had practically no influence on the policy of the country, considering it his main task to maintain order in his own family.

Georg died on 20 January 1936 at Sandringham. Rumor has it that his doctor, Lord Dawson, hastened the death of the king, who gave him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine so that the news of the death of the king would get into the morning issue of the Times, and not into the less prestigious evening papers. During the funeral of George, the Maltese cross from his crown fell into the mud, which was regarded as a bad omen for the heir, Edward.

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King George V of Great Britain in naval uniform.

George V, George-Frederick-Ernst-Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Georg-Frederik-Ernst-Albert von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha) (3.6.1865, Marlborough House - 20.1.1936), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 th son of King Edward VII. In 1892, after the death of his elder brother Albert, he received the titles of Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killerney. As a child, he was distinguished by very poor health and in 1875-89 he was constantly on the voyage (to improve his health). In 1882 he graduated from Trinity College. Educated at Heidelberg and Lausanne Universities. After his father's accession to the throne (January 22, 1901), he was proclaimed Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothsey, Earl of Chester, Carrick and Dublin. In 1910 he ascended the throne. He changed the rules at court, trying to give up excessive luxury (often his savings bordered on stinginess). He led a secluded and secluded life. G. practically did not interfere in the administration of the state, completely transferring it into the hands of the prime ministers, and was mainly engaged in increasing his fortune and maintaining peace in the family. In July 1917, the ruling dynasty in Great Britain was replaced by the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty as Windsor. Largely due to the indecisive position of G., who was afraid of any complications, English. government refused to accept