Author: Bernard Lionel Kinghorn HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
King George v, 1910-1936
Author: Bernard Lionel Kinghorn HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
King George V, 1910-1936
Author: George V (King of Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
George V
Author: Jane RidleyPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062567519
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnership The grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of unprecedented international turbulence. Yet no one could deny that as a young man, George seemed uninspired. As his biographer Harold Nicolson famously put it, "he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.” The contrast between him and his flamboyant, hedonistic, playboy father Edward VII could hardly have been greater. However, though it lasted only a quarter-century, George’s reign was immensely consequential. He faced a constitutional crisis, the First World War, the fall of thirteen European monarchies and the rise of Bolshevism. The suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under his horse at the Derby, he refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar Nicholas II during the Russian Revolution, and he facilitated the first Labour government. And, as Jane Ridley shows, the modern British monarchy would not exist without George; he reinvented the institution, allowing it to survive and thrive when its very existence seemed doomed. The status of the British monarchy today, she argues, is due in large part to him. How this supposedly limited man managed to steer the crown through so many perils and adapt an essentially Victorian institution to the twentieth century is a great story in itself. But this book is also a riveting portrait of a royal marriage and family life. Queen Mary played a pivotal role in the reign as well as being an important figure in her own right. Under the couple's stewardship, the crown emerged stronger than ever. George V founded the modern monarchy, and yet his disastrous quarrel with his eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, culminated in the existential crisis of the Abdication only months after his death. Jane Ridley has had unprecedented access to the archives, and for the first time is able to reassess in full the many myths associated with this crucial and dramatic time. She brings us a royal family and world not long vanished, and not so far from our own.
George V, 1910-1936
Author: Hudson's Bay CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Condolence notes
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Facsimile reproductions of two letters of condolence, dated February 4th 1936, from the Hudson's Bay Company, to King Edward VIII and his mother Queen Mary, on the death of King George V.
The Life and Times of King George V
Author: Philip GibbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
King George V, 1910-1936
Author: George V (Penguin Monarchs)
Author: David CannadinePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014197690X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
For a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his flamboyant predecessor Edward VII, inventing the modern monarchy, with its emphasis on frequent public appearances, family values and duty. George V was an effective war-leader and inventor of 'the House of Windsor'. In an era of ever greater media coverage--frequently filmed and initiating the British Empire Christmas broadcast--George became for 25 years a universally recognised figure. He was also the only British monarch to take his role as Emperor of India seriously. While his great rivals (Tsar Nicolas and Kaiser Wilhelm) ended their reigns in catastrophe, he plodded on. David Cannadine's sparkling account of his reign could not be more enjoyable, a masterclass in how to write about Monarchy, that central--if peculiar--pillar of British life.
King George V
Author: Kenneth RosePublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842120019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Whitbread (and Wolfson and Yorkshire Post) Prize Winning account of the king whose life spanned the centuries. Grandfather of the present Queen, George V bridged the century from the ¿glories¿ of the Victorian and Edwardian eras through the horrors of the Great War. His life is recounted here drawing on letters and diaries of the Royal family as well as intimates and social observers of the time. As his funeral cortege turned into New Palace Yard the Maltese Cross fell from the Crown and landed in the gutter. ¿A most terrible omen¿ wrote Harold Nicolson. And indeed it was.
King George V., 1910-1936. A Life of Service. [With Plates, Including Portraits.].
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Author: Bernard Lionel Kinghorn HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
King George V, 1910-1936. The Story of a Great Reign, Retold by Stephen King-Hall. [With Illustrations, Including Portraits.].
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Author: Stephen King HALL (Baron King-Hall.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description