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George V
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
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politics · King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 · philatelist · politician · monarch · aristocrat · also George V, George Frederick Ernest Albert, George Windsor, George Frederick Ernest Albert Windsor, George Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, George Frederick Ernest Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Born 3 June 1865 · Died 20 January 1936 · Q269412
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2026· 13 entries
press.fourseasons.com: Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris Proudly Joins the Paris Opera as a Patron for the 2026/2027 Season
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Horse & Hound: Robert Whitaker on why he believes he can emulate his uncle Michael with a fourth King George V Gold Cup win
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Kiesinger Funeral Services: George V. Selden
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Tatler: Who was Prince George, Duke of Kent? King George V's son who died aged 39 in a mysterious RAF crash that remains unsolved
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Zee News: Was ‘Jana Gana Mana’ written for British king George V? The 1911 secret behind India’s national anthem
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Four Seasons Press Room: At the Bar of Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris Thibault Méquignon Writes a New Chapter in Parisian Mixology
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Four Seasons Press Room: Bertrand Noeureuil Joins Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris as Chef of L’Orangerie, La Galerie, the Bar and Room Service
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Exeter Today: What's happening at King George V Playing Fields? Diggers move in next week
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bakerfuneralhome.com: George V. McIntosh Obituary Aug 11, 2026
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UK Government: Work to begin on improvements to the King George V Playing Fields
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umlconnector.com: Lllunimon 1/1000 King George V Battleship Model - 23cm Diecast Metal Royal Navy Ship For Collection
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Time: GREAT BRITAIN: George V (17 Dec 1928)
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2023· 2 entries
The Quint rated the claim “Rabindranath Tagore wrote the national anthem to honour King George V, who in turn awarded him the Nobel Prize for literature.” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Rabindranath Tagore wrote the ‘Jana Gana Mana’ song in praise of King George V, who was the Chairman of the Nobel Prize selection committee when Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913” FALSE.
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2022· 2 entries
Washington Post: George V, the proudly ‘ordinary’ king who rebranded the British monarchy
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The Washington Post: George V, the proudly ‘ordinary’ king who rebranded the British monarchy
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1990· 1 entry
“Quoted by Philip Ziegler in King Edward VIII: The Official Biography (1990), p. 199. London: Collins.”
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1986· 2 entries
Reveals that George's last words, a mumbled "God damn you
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“Allegedly said to his son, Prince Edward. Quoted by Christopher Warwick in Abdication (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986)”
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1983· 1 entry
“On the morning of his death; quoted in Kenneth Rose, King George V (1983), ch.10”
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1939· 1 entry
“Holmes, Richard: Andra världskriget 1939-1945 : en översikt, Fisher & Co, 2015, sid. 4. ISBN 978-91-86597-97-9.”
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1936· 30 entries
Died 1936-01-20.
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“Allegedly said to J.A. Tilleard, Honorary Secretary, Philatelic Society, on appointing him as Philatelist to the King.”
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“The Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her Colonial trade against foreign competitors.”
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“Wake up, England, you have been asleep too long!”
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“We have to create a better Britain, to bestow more care on the health and well-being of the people, and to ameliorate further the conditions of labour.”
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“Statement to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, referring to his son, Edward, Prince of Wales”
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“My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”
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“Dieses verdammte Bognor." - Letzte Worte, 20. Januar 1936 (inoffizielle Version; sein Lieblingsurlaubsort war Bognor Regis)”
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“Wie steht es um das Empire?" - Letzte Worte, 20. Januar 1936 (offizielle Version)”
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“Om Gud vill är det snart över och Han kommer att skydda min käre Berties liv.Georg V förklarar krig mot Tyskland (Bertie, hans son, blev Georg VI)”
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“(Original engl.: "Bugger Bognor.")”
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“(Original engl.: "How is the Empire?")”
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“Alleged last words in 1936, in response to being told that he would soon be well enough to visit the seaside resort Bognor Regis”
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“At this grave moment of our national history I send to you, and through you to the officers and men of the Fleets of which you have assumed command, the assurance of my confidence that, under your direction, they will revive and renew the old glories of the Royal Navy and prove once again the sure shield of Britain and of her Empire in the hour of trial.”
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“Yesterday morning, four large German cruisers, it being foggy, appeared off the east coast of Yorkshire about 8.0 o'clock, & shelled Hartlepool & Scarborough for 40 minutes, doing considerable damage, killing about 40 women, children & civilians and maiming & wounding about 400. This is German kultur.”
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“I may be uninspiring but I'll be damned if I'm alien.”
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“It has always been my dream that the two English-speaking nations should some day be united in a great cause, and to-day my dream is realized. Together we are fighting for the greatest cause for which peoples could fight. The Anglo-Saxon race must save civilization.”
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“I said to your predecessor: 'You know what they're all saying, no more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.' The fellow didn't even laugh.”
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“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.”
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“After you've met one hundred and fifty Lord Mayors, they all begin to look the same.”
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“I look upon him as the greatest criminal known for having plunged the world into war.”
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“You dress like a cad. You act like a cad. You are a cad.”
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“Allegedly said in response to H. G. Wells's criticism of his "alien [i.e. German-descended] and uninspiring court”
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“But, remember, I wish to have the best collection, not just one of the best collections in England.”
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“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
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“Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.”
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“Golf always makes me so damned angry.”
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“What did you do about peeing?”
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“Allegedly said to Charles Lindbergh after he flew the Atlantic solo in an aeroplane.”
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“It's the shortest one I know.”
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1935· 3 entries
“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself within 12 months”
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George said of his son Edward: "After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself within 12 months", and of Albert and Elizabeth: "I pray to God my eldest son will never marry and have children, and that nothing will come betwe
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Had become a well-loved king, saying in response to the crowd's adulation, "I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow
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1934· 1 entry
George bluntly told the German ambassador Leopold von Hoesch that Germany was now the peril of the world, and that there was bound to be a war within ten years if Germany went on at the present rate; he warned the Britis
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1932· 1 entry
George agreed to deliver a Royal Christmas speech on the radio, an event that became annual thereafter
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1931· 2 entries
Career landmark: monarch (1931–1936).
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Led by MacDonald and Baldwin, and volunteered to reduce the civil list to help balance the budget
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1929· 1 entry
The suggestion of a further rest abroad was rejected by the King "in rather strong language"
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1927· 1 entry
Career landmark: Monarch of the United Kingdom (1927–1936).
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1926· 1 entry
George hosted an Imperial Conference in London at which the Balfour Declaration accepted the growth of the British Dominions into self-governing "autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no w
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1925· 1 entry
On the instruction of his doctors, he was reluctantly sent on a recuperative private cruise in the Mediterranean; it was his third trip abroad since the war, and his last
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1924· 2 entries
George appointed the first Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, in the absence of a clear majority for any one of the three major parties
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And the 1931 Statute of Westminster recognised the Empire's Dominions as separate, independent states within the British Commonwealth of Nations
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1923· 1 entry
Were the only times George agreed to leave the United Kingdom on official business after the end of the war
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1922· 1 entry
A Royal Navy ship was sent to Greece to rescue his cousins Prince and Princess Andrew
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1918· 1 entry
“Alleged statement about his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1918)”
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1917· 4 entries
Removed, by warrant, the Saxony inescutcheon from the arms of all male-line descendants of the Prince Consort domiciled in the United Kingdom (although the royal arms themselves had never borne the shield)
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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
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“Said after H. G. Wells referred to "an alien and uninspiring Court" (April 1917), quoted in Harold Nicolson, King George the Fifth: His Life and Reign (1953), p. 308”
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“Remarks to John J. Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (9 June 1917), quoted in John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War, Volume I (1931), p. 48”
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1914· 4 entries
“Diary entry (4 August 1914), quoted in Harold Nicolson, King George the Fifth: His Life and Reign (1953), p. 247”
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“Diary entry on the raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby (17 December 1914), quoted in Harold Nicolson, King George the Fifth: His Life and Reign (1953), p. 257”
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“Signal to Sir John Jellicoe (5 August 1914), quoted in Harold Nicolson, King George the Fifth: His Life and Reign (1953), p. 257”
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“I held a council at 10:45 to declare war with Germany. It is a terrible catastrophe but it is not our fault. ... Please to God it may soon be over.”
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1913· 1 entry
Won Albert Medal (1913).
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1911· 2 entries
“Allegedly said about two postage stamps issued in 1911.”
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The King and Queen travelled to India for the Delhi Durbar, where they were presented to an assembled audience of Indian dignitaries and princes as the Emperor and Empress of India on 12 December 1911
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1910· 3 entries
Career landmark: monarch of Canada (1910–1936).
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Career landmark: monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1910–1927).
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Career landmark: Emperor of India (1910–1936).
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1909· 1 entry
Awarded honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1909).
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1905· 1 entry
Career landmark: Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1905–1907).
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1902· 1 entry
Awarded Royal Victorian Chain (1902).
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1901· 2 entries
The Duke and Duchess toured the British Empire
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George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales
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1896· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Philatelic Society London (1896–1910).
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1893· 3 entries
They married on 6 July 1893 at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London.
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But George had shrugged it off as a joke
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She married Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Romania, in 1893.
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1892· 2 entries
On 14 January 1892, six weeks after the formal engagement, Albert Victor died of pneumonia during an influenza pandemic, leaving George second in line to the throne and likely to succeed after his father.
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Career landmark: Duke of York (1892–1910).
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1891· 1 entry
In November 1891, George's brother, Albert Victor, became engaged to their second cousin once removed Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, known as "May" within the family.
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1884· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Garter (1884).
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1882· 1 entry
The princes attended a Sephardic Passover dinner, and got tattoos of the Jerusalem Cross to commemorate their visit twenty years after their father had obtained the same tattoo
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1881· 1 entry
On a visit to Japan, George had a local artist tattoo a blue and red dragon on his arm, and was received in an audience by the Emperor Meiji; George and his brother presented Empress Haruko with two wallabies from Austra
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1865· 1 entry
Born 1865-06-03.
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