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George V - Never a Dull Moment (Paperback)
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George V - Never a Dull Moment (Paperback)
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List price R455
Loot Price R381
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You Save R74 (16%)
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The prequel to The Crown: the first truly candid portrait of George
V and Mary, the Queen's grandparents and creators of the modern
monarchy The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. His
biographer Harold Nicolson famously quipped that 'he did nothing at
all but kill animals and stick in stamps'. But is that really all
there was to King George, a monarch confronted by a series of
crises thought to be the most testing faced by any
twentieth-century British sovereign? As Tommy Lascelles, one of the
most perceptive royal advisers, put it: 'He was dull, beyond
dispute -- but my God, his reign never had a dull moment.'
Throughout his reign, George V navigated 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 and he facilitated the first Labour government.
How this supposedly limited man steered the Crown through so many
perils is a gripping tale. With unprecedented access to the
archives, Jane Ridley has been able to reassess the many myths
associated with this dramatic period for the first time. 'Superb .
. . a perfectly candid portrait' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
'Riveting . . . Never a dull paragraph' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The
Times
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