Download or read book King George v 1910 1936 written by Bernard Lionel Kinghorn Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King George V 1910 1936 written by George V (King of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George V written by Jane Ridley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnership The grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of unprecedented international turbulence. Yet no one could deny that as a young man, George seemed uninspired. As his biographer Harold Nicolson famously put it, "he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.” The contrast between him and his flamboyant, hedonistic, playboy father Edward VII could hardly have been greater. However, though it lasted only a quarter-century, George’s reign was immensely consequential. He faced a constitutional crisis, the First World War, the fall of thirteen European monarchies and the rise of Bolshevism. The suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under his horse at the Derby, he refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar Nicholas II during the Russian Revolution, and he facilitated the first Labour government. And, as Jane Ridley shows, the modern British monarchy would not exist without George; he reinvented the institution, allowing it to survive and thrive when its very existence seemed doomed. The status of the British monarchy today, she argues, is due in large part to him. How this supposedly limited man managed to steer the crown through so many perils and adapt an essentially Victorian institution to the twentieth century is a great story in itself. But this book is also a riveting portrait of a royal marriage and family life. Queen Mary played a pivotal role in the reign as well as being an important figure in her own right. Under the couple's stewardship, the crown emerged stronger than ever. George V founded the modern monarchy, and yet his disastrous quarrel with his eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, culminated in the existential crisis of the Abdication only months after his death. Jane Ridley has had unprecedented access to the archives, and for the first time is able to reassess in full the many myths associated with this crucial and dramatic time. She brings us a royal family and world not long vanished, and not so far from our own.
Download or read book King George V 1910 1936 written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Times of King George V written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King George V 1910 1936 A Life of Service With Plates Including Portraits written by Bernard Lionel Kinghorn Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George V 1910 1936 written by Hudson's Bay Company and published by . This book was released on 1936* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimile reproductions of two letters of condolence, dated February 4th 1936, from the Hudson's Bay Company, to King Edward VIII and his mother Queen Mary, on the death of King George V.
Download or read book George V Penguin Monarchs written by David Cannadine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his flamboyant predecessor Edward VII, inventing the modern monarchy, with its emphasis on frequent public appearances, family values and duty. George V was an effective war-leader and inventor of 'the House of Windsor'. In an era of ever greater media coverage--frequently filmed and initiating the British Empire Christmas broadcast--George became for 25 years a universally recognised figure. He was also the only British monarch to take his role as Emperor of India seriously. While his great rivals (Tsar Nicolas and Kaiser Wilhelm) ended their reigns in catastrophe, he plodded on. David Cannadine's sparkling account of his reign could not be more enjoyable, a masterclass in how to write about Monarchy, that central--if peculiar--pillar of British life.
Download or read book King George V 1910 1936 The Story of a Great Reign Retold by Stephen King Hall With Illustrations Including Portraits written by Stephen King HALL (Baron King-Hall.) and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King George V written by John Gore and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1949 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speeches and Replies to Addresses by His Majesty King George V May 1910 January 1936 written by George V (King of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Role of the Monarchy Under King George V 1910 1936 written by Bonita Hoefler and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King George V written by Kenneth Rose and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whitbread (and Wolfson and Yorkshire Post) Prize Winning account of the king whose life spanned the centuries. Grandfather of the present Queen, George V bridged the century from the ¿glories¿ of the Victorian and Edwardian eras through the horrors of the Great War. His life is recounted here drawing on letters and diaries of the Royal family as well as intimates and social observers of the time. As his funeral cortege turned into New Palace Yard the Maltese Cross fell from the Crown and landed in the gutter. ¿A most terrible omen¿ wrote Harold Nicolson. And indeed it was.
Download or read book The Life and Times of King George V George the Faithful written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
Download or read book For King and Country written by Heather Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the First World War really 'For King and Country'? This is the first full history of the monarchy's role.
Download or read book Speeches and Replies to Addresses by His Majesty King George V May 1910 Jan 1936 written by George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936, respondent and published by [London] : Compiled in the Office of His Majesty's Private Secretary, [193-]. This book was released on 193? with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Assassination of Lumumba written by Ludo De Witte and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba—the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity—since it perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time, Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from the Belgian government to the CIA. Patrice Lumumba’s personal strength and his quest for African unity emerges in stark contrast with one of the murkiest episodes in twentieth-century politics.
