George V: Never a Dull Moment
Nov 17, 2021
3 minutes
By Jane Ridley
Chatto & Windus £30
For a man so often described as ‘dull’, George V has attracted some very un-dull biographers – Harold Nicolson, Kenneth Rose and, now, Jane Ridley.
Ridley last turned her hand to Edward VII (Bertie), father of George, and in many ways a more congenial subject. You could hardly have two more different Kings. Where Bertie was worldly, charismatic and a man of extravagant appetites, George was unsophisticated and uxorious and practised moderation in all things, bar
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