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| George_V WINDSOR (1865 - 1936) |
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King of England
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| Date |
Age |
Event |
Place |
Notes |
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| 03 Jun 1865 |
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George_V WINDSOR was born |
Marlborough Hse, London, England |
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| 06 Jul 1893 |
28 |
Married Mary_of_Teck (May) ? (aged 26) |
Chapel Royal, St James Palace |
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| 23 Jun 1894 |
29 |
Birth of son Edward_VIII WINDSOR |
White Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey, England |
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| 14 Dec 1895 |
30 |
Birth of son George_VI WINDSOR |
York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England |
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| 25 Apr 1897 |
31 |
Birth of daughter Mary WINDSOR |
York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England |
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| 31 Mar 1900 |
34 |
Birth of son Henry William Frederick WINDSOR |
York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England |
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| 20 Dec 1902 |
37 |
Birth of son George Edward Alexander WINDSOR |
York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England |
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| 12 Jul 1905 |
40 |
Birth of son John Charles Francis WINDSOR |
York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England |
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| 06 May 1910 |
44 |
Death of father Edward_VII WETTIN (aged 68) |
Buckingham Palace, London, England |
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| 18 Jan 1919 |
53 |
Death of son John Charles Francis WINDSOR (aged 13) |
Wood Farm, Wolferton, Norfolk, England |
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| 20 Nov 1925 |
60 |
Death of mother Alexandra (Alix) of_Denmark (aged 80) |
Sandringham, Norfolk, England |
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| 20 Jan 1936 |
70 |
George_V WINDSOR died |
Sandringham, Norfolk, England |
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| Personal Notes: |
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) 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 other 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.
From the age of 12 George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the unexpected death of his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, he became heir to the throne and married his brother's fiancée, Mary of Teck. Although they occasionally toured the British Empire, George preferred to stay at home with his stamp collection, and lived what later biographers would consider a dull life because of its conventionality.
When George's father, King Edward VII died in 1910, he became King-Emperor. He was the only Emperor of India to be crowned there. During World War I he relinquished all German titles and styles on behalf of his relatives who were British subjects; and changed the name of the royal house from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. During his reign, the Statute of Westminster separated the crown so that George ruled the dominions as separate kingdoms, and the rise of socialism, fascism and Irish republicanism changed the political spectrum.
George was plagued by illness throughout much of his later reign; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward, upon his death. |
