George V

Full name
	George Frederick Ernest Albert

George V
George V
	Coronation portrait bi Sir Luke Fildes, 1911
Keeng o the Unitit Kinrick an the Breetish Dominions, Emperor o Indie (mair ...)
Ring	6 Mey 1910 – 20 Januar 1936
Breetain	22 Juin 1911
Predecessor	Edward VII
Successor	Edward VIII
Govrenors General; Prime Meenisters	See leet; See leet
Imperial Durbar	12 December 1911
Born	3 Juin 1865; Marlborough Hoose, Lunnon
Dee'd	20 Januar 1936 (aged 70); Sandringham Hoose, Norfolk, Unitit Kinrick
Buirial	28 Januar 1936; St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Spouse	Mary o Teck
Issue; Detail	Edward VIII; George VI; Mary, Princess Ryal, Coontess o Harewood; Prince Henry, Duke o Gloucester; Prince George, Duke o Kent; Prince John
Full name
	George Frederick Ernest Albert
Hoose	Hoose o Windsor; Hoose o Saxe-Coburg an Gotha
Faither	Edward VII
Mither	Alexandra o Denmark
Seegnatur

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 Juin 1865 – 20 Januar 1936) wis Keeng o the Unitit Kinrick an the Breetish Dominions, an Emperor o Indie, frae 6 Mey 1910 throu the First Warld War (1914–18) till his daith.

George wis a grandson o Queen Victoria an Prince Albert an the first cousin o Tsar Nicholas II o Roushie an Kaiser Wilhelm II o Germany. Frae 1877 tae 1891, he served in the Ryal Navy. On the daith o Victoria in 1901, George's faither acame Keeng Edward VII, an George wis made Prince o Wales. On his faither's daith in 1910, he succeedit as Keeng-Emperor o the Breetish Empire. He wis the anly Emperor o Indie tae be present at his awn Delhi Durbar.

As a result o the First Warld War, ither empires in Europe fell while his expandit tae its greatest extent. In 1917, he acame the first monarch o the Hoose o Windsor, which he renamed frae the Hoose o Saxe-Coburg an Gotha as a result o anti-German public sentiment. His reign saw the rise o socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, an the Indian unthirldom movement, aw o which radically chynged the poleetical landscape. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy o the electit Breetish Hoose o Commons ower the unelected Hoose o Lords. In 1924 he appyntit the first Labour meenistry an in 1931 the Statute o Westminster recognised the dominions o the Empire as separate, independent kinricks within the Commonweel o Naitions. He wis plagued bi illness throughout much o his later reign an at his daith wis succeedit bi his eldest son, Edward VIII.

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