British Jewry joined today in paying tribute to King George V at services held on the occasion of his funeral. Tributes to the late king were voiced at a meeting of the Jewish Agency for Palestine ...

Five minutes later, the operator of the Type 284 radar finally obtained an accurate range of 20,500 yards and King George V obtained her first straddle. In a 90-minute span, the four British ships ...

He never had a coronation, and was the shortest-reigning British monarch. King George V and Queen Mary were proclaimed Emperor and Empress of India in a ceremony in Delhi in December 1911.

Of the 56 countries that made up the British Empire 100 years ago, its sovereign King George V visited just one of them. “How is the Empire?” he’d often ask his advisors – but their ...

Forget the dusty history books labeling King George V (1910-1936) as a snooze-fest monarch stuck in a whirlwind of change. I recently read Jane Ridley’s “George V: Never a Dull Moment” which ...

King George V of England and Queen Mary in state coach ... “You bet” echoed from Piccadilly Circus to Regent Street. The British found this — found us — amusing. “The presence of so ...

LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II’s grandfather, King George V, died 86 years ago ... was the constant rock of stability in British life before she died on Sept. 8 in Scotland.

As the German army collapsed, Monash was considered a potential commander-in-chief of British forces. On 12 August, at a meeting near Amiens, the king himself dubbed Monash ... A heavy smoker, George ...

The group has less courted controversy than brazenly promoted it: Around the same time that King George V’s head was separated from the statue, the group tore through the British Museum in ...

Last month, the missing head of a statue of King George V made an unexpected appearance onstage at a concert of the touring Northern Irish rap band, Kneecap. The head had not been seen publicly ...