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George V

George V stood for order and tradition in an age of tumultuous change. He was born just after the American Civil War; when he died Hitler had been in power for exactly three years. During his reign he appointed the first Labour prime minister and was witness to the achievement of the 'flapper vote'; he also saw the extreme harshness of mass unemployment and the first signs of the decline of the British empire. His grandmother, Queen Victoria, had been 'the grandmother of Europe'; George lived to see one cousin, the Kaiser, forced onto exile, and another, Tsar Nicholas II, dethroned and assassinated.

Far from being the bluff, dull and blinkered conservative of caricature, the King emerges from this sympathetic portrait as a complex and thoughtful monarch. Pragmatic and forthright, he was nevertheless a man of sensibility. His strong sense of duty and warm humanity conspired to win him the affection of his people at home and overseas.

Reviews

"This is an excellent and well-illustrated account of a much-loved monarch."
- Jack House, Glasgow Evening Times

"Dr. Judd gives us a deft account of world and national politics….The book admirably develops [the] abiding truth about the King."
- Times Literary Supplement