English King George V
By
D. A. Sharpe
"George V (George
Frederick Ernest Albert) lived 3 June 1865 Ð
20 January 1936. He was the first
British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the
British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. As well as being King
of the United Kingdom, and the Commonwealth Realms, George was also the Emperor
of India and the first King of the Irish Free State. George reigned from 6 May
1910 through World War I (1914?1918) until his death in 1936."
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom
King George V is the 8th cousin, seven times removed of Edward Carleton, the husband of Ellen Newton, the
stepdaughter of Danette Abney, my 6th great grand uncle.
Born during the reign
of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was third in the line of successionbehind his
father, the Prince of Wales, and his own elder brother, Prince Albert Victor.
From 1877 to 1891, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his
elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On the
death of his grandmother in 1901, George's father became King-Emperor of the British Empire as Edward
VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became king-emperor on his
father's death in 1910.
George VÕs reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish
republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which
radically changed the political landscape.
The Parliament Act 1911established the supremacy of
the elected British House of Commons over the
unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World
War (1914Ð1918), the empires of his first cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany fell,
while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917,
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. In 1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognized the
dominions of the Empire as separate, independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations. He had
smoking-related health problems throughout much of his later reign and at his
death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII.
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