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TRAVELLERS remain camped on a popular park after more than 24 hours. Council workers, working alongside police, were set to visit the camp on King George V playing fields in Brickfields. The camp, ...
Back in 1986, it was claimed that King George V had been euthanised by his doctor, Lord Dawson, who died in 1945. A 'mixture of morphine and cocaine was administered' in the form of an injection ...
Forget the dusty history books labeling King George V (1910-1936) as a snooze-fest monarch stuck in a whirlwind of change. I ...
Shortly before he died, King George V wrote to Stanley Baldwin, the prime minister, in despair about his eldest son, Edward, Prince of Wales. 'After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself within 12 ...
Though the concept remains the same, the current monarch's speeches are very different to the very first read by George V in 1932. Sat in a small room in Sandringham that provided better sound ...
The L'Orangerie restaurant at the George V Palace in Paris unveils a completely redesigned dining room. In this refined ...
Prince George – son of King George V and younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI – arrived in the city after he and the Royal Navy parted company. George claimed he was forced to leave ...
The George V’s service isn’t just about efficiency or polish — it’s about creating a sense of ease, of generosity, of care. And that, as it turns out, might be the most luxurious thing of all.
But it was King George V's pet parrot Charlotte that made the biggest impression on the Royal Family. As a child, Princess Elizabeth would feed her sugar lumps and spent time playing with the bird ...
King George V, second son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, was born in 1865 and served in the Royal Navy until 1892 when he became heir to the throne following the death of his elder brother, ...
Last month, the missing head of a statue of King George V made an unexpected appearance onstage at a concert of the touring Northern Irish rap band, Kneecap. The head had not been seen publicly ...
At its show in Australia this weekend, the raucously political rap trio Kneecap brought what appeared to be the missing head of a King George V statue onstage. By Ali Watkins The irreverent ...