George V

• “The American ambassador, Walter Page, reported that King George V had wept when the subject came up at lunch.”

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• ““There is no more loyal man in the country,” George V wrote that night in his diary.”

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• “King George V invited Sims to spend a night at Windsor Castle and after dinner, over cigars, told him that the sinkings must be stopped or the Allies would lose the war.”

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• “In June 1917, when King George V heard that people were saying he was pro-German because his family had German names, “he started and grew pale.””

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• “The guests included King George V of England and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; the ceremony became the last meeting of prewar European monarchs before the outbreak of hostilities fifteen months later.”

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• “Two days before — on the twenty-sixth — Henry had come up to London from the yachting races at Cowes and had called on his cousin King George V at Buckingham Palace.”

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• ““Terrible shock for the dear old emperor,” King George V wrote in his diary.”

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• “Once this was done, King George V would review the entire British fleet at Spithead; afterward, the ships would carry out brief exercises at sea and then disperse.”

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• ““He should have been hanged at the yardarm for desertion of his post in the face of the enemy,” George V declared.”

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• “Warrender in King George V received the message, as did the battle cruiser New Zealand, assigned by Beatty to act as guard ship for transmissions to the battle cruisers by the British destroyers.”

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