King George V’s intervention in the Home Rule crisis, calling the Buckingham Palace conference in July 1914 to bring together John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and Edward ...

George V had at the time voiced concerns about Smith’s relative youth — he was 47 — but more likely it was the candidate’s pedigree as the descendant of a coal miner and his well-known ...

The solid bronze severed head of Melbourne’s decapitated King George V statue was reported to have briefly reappeared in public, gracing the stage during a performance by Irish rap group Kneecap.

Vandals decapitated a statue of King George V in Melbourne on 10 June 2024, a national holiday day in Australia marking the birth of the British Monarch. Police immediately launched an ...

Basingstoke, 29 May 1915 - The first of the Irish divisions of what is known as ‘Kitchener’s Army’ was reviewed yesterday at Basingstoke by King George V. Over 15,000 men, representing all ...

George V wasn’t your typical royal showboat. Unlike his flashy father, Edward VII, who lived for glitz, gossip, fashion trends, mistresses and scandal, George was the introverted, no-nonsense ...

The hostility of Irish leaders to the monarchy was not reciprocated. King George V played an important role in bringing a negotiated settlement to the War of Independence. His speech at the ...