Person:George V of the United Kingdom (1)

George V of the United Kingdom _____
Facts and Events
Name George V of the United Kingdom _____
Gender Male
Birth[1] 3 Jun 1865 Westminster, Middlesex, EnglandMarlborough House
Marriage to Mary of Teck
Death[1] 20 Jan 1936 Sandringham, Norfolk, EnglandSandringham House
Burial[1] Windsor, Berkshire, EnglandSt. George's Chapel
Reference Number? Q269412?


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George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was the second son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father and elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1892, 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 Victoria's death in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became king-emperor on his father's death in 1910.

George's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape of the British Empire. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World War (1914–1918), the empires of his first cousins Nicholas II of Russia and Wilhelm II of Germany fell, while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, he 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, George appointed the first Labour ministry and the 1931 Statute of Westminster recognised the Empire's dominions as separate, independent states within the British Commonwealth of Nations.

George suffered from smoking-related health problems throughout much of his later reign, and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 George V of the United Kingdom, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   George V, in Find A Grave.
Succession of Monarchs of the United Kingdom
Victoria

1837-1901
as Queen of the United Kingdom
and
Empress of India

1876-1901
his grandmother

Edward VII

1901-1910
his father

King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions

1910-1927
title changed
King of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions
1927-1936
Emperor of India
1910-1936

Edward VIII

1936
his eldest son

George VI

1936-1952
(No longer Emperor after 1947)
his second son


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