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Pros
Jane ridley's george never a dull moment is one of the best political biographies i've ever read. Ridley argues that george v largely created the modern monarchy. Despite being discounted and underestimated, george v ensured that the house of windsor ... Read More
Highlights
Shipping
He treated his family members as if they were sailors on the ship he was commanding
Competitiveness
George v reigned from 19101936 a time that saw many changes in britain and the larger world
He also had the acumen of a statesmen
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Five innocent children died a horrible death because he refused to help them
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Not a loving per s on in any ones book
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The stain of not being perfectly royal marked mays life
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The king adroitly managed to deal successfully with a series of prime ministers and other officials and helped guide britain through a series of vast social changes including of course the upheavals of world war i and its aftermath
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Turns out these people were human and interesting rather than funny looking old men in an old history book
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Her role may have been more critical than has been previously reported in other works but the book is about the king not the king and queen
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It might have more appropriately been a book about a successful royal marriage and titled as such
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Otherwise one could be left with the impression that the author an academic is engaged in some revisionist history to enhance the role of women a politically correct impulse of many in the academy today