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King George V appeared to regret not helping his cousin Tsar Nicholas II and his family escape Russia and their eventual death. When he learned of the death of the Romanovs and their five children ...
George V favoured his second son Albert 'Bertie' and Albert's daughter Elizabeth 'Lilibet', later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, respectively. He told a courtier: 'I pray to God that my ...
Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and England’s King George V were first cousins. In 1918, Ipatiev House was turned into a fortified prison for ex-Tsar Nicholas II and his family. As the ill-fated ...
Queen Elizabeth II’s grandfather, King George V, had shepherded Britain through World War I during his reign from 1910 to 1936. But as the king grew older, the British royal family grew uneasy ...
The late Queen Elizabeth II had been giving televised addresses since 1957, although the tradition dates back to King George V, her grandfather, in 1932. Introduced after a rousing rendition of ...
When King George V died in 1936, the mantle passed to his eldest son, Edward VIII. Presuming that Edward would one day get married and have children, those children would precede Edward’s ...
M.S. Rau has just listed three historic pieces that appeared at Queen Elizabeth II‘s and King George VI’s respective crownings. According to the high-end antique dealer, it was customary ...
The monarch is shown seated on one of a pair of 1902 throne chairs that were made for the future King George V and Queen Mary for ... Oliver Cholmondeley and Nicholas Barclay.
The new images, captured by British photographer Hugo Burnand, show the royal couple in the Blue Drawing Room in Buckingham Palace Nicholas ... her husband, King George V, in 1911.
England's last encounter with a King Philip was when Philip II of Spain technically co-ruled ... Let's not even get started on George V, the consummate Imperial, and owner of what is easily ...