George V

George V
Formal portrait, 1923
King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions Emperor of India
Reign	6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936
Coronation	22 June 1911
Imperial Durbar	12 December 1911
Predecessor	Edward VII
Successor	Edward VIII
Born	Prince George of Wales (1865-06-03)3 June 1865 Marlborough House, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Died	20 January 1936(1936-01-20) (aged 70) Sandringham House, Norfolk, England
Burial	28 January 1936 Royal Vault, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 27 February 1939 North Nave Aisle, St George's Chapel
Spouse	Mary of Teck ​ (m. 1893)​
Issue Detail	Edward VIII George VI Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Prince George, Duke of Kent Prince John
Names George Frederick Ernest Albert
House	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (by birth) Windsor (founder)
Father	Edward VII
Mother	Alexandra of Denmark
Religion	Protestant
Signature
Military career
Service	Royal Navy
Years of active service	1877–1892
Rank	Full list
Commands	Torpedo Boat 79 HMS Thrush HMS Melampus
King George V's voice George delivers the first Royal Christmas Message Recorded 25 December 1932

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

George was born during the reign of his paternal grandmother, Queen Victoria, as the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). He was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1892, George served in the Royal Navy, until his elder brother's unexpected death in January 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. The next year George married his brother's former fiancée, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, and they had six children. When Queen Victoria died in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became king-emperor on his father's death in 1910.

George's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape of the British Empire, which itself reached its territorial peak by the beginning of the 1920s. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World War (1914–1918), the empires of his first cousins Nicholas II of Russia and Wilhelm II of Germany fell, while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. He appointed the first Labour ministry in 1924, and the 1931 Statute of Westminster recognised the Empire's Dominions as separate, independent states within the British Commonwealth of Nations.

George suffered from smoking-related health problems during his later reign. On his death in January 1936, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII. Edward abdicated in December of that year and was succeeded by his younger brother Albert, who took the regnal name George VI.