King George V

format_quote “I hear from Russia that there is every probability that Alix and the four daughters and the little boy were murdered at the same time as Nicky. It’s too horrible, and shows what fiends these Bolsheviks are.
For poor Alix it was best so, but those poor innocent children.”

stars  His reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape.

stars  In 1917, he 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.

stars  He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar (mass assembly at Coronation Park, Delhi, India, to mark the coronation of a King and Queen of the United Kingdom)