Foul-mouthed, hard-working and heroic: George V wasn’t so ‘dull’ after all The Bright Young Things thought him a bore, but Jane Ridley's superb biography of George V shows how lucky we were to have ...
Forget the dusty history books labeling King George V (1910-1936) as a snooze-fest monarch stuck in a whirlwind of change. I recently read Jane Ridley’s “George V: Never a Dull Moment” which flips ...