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Far from being our dullest king, George V was full of surprises

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

George V: Never a Dull Moment Jane Ridley

Chatto & Windus, pp.576, 30

‘Victorian’ stuck, and ‘Edwardian’ too. But ‘Georgian’, as an adjective associated with the next monarch in line, never caught on. It was already assigned, of course, but George V very strikingly didn’t embody his time in the way that his father and grandmother did. The adjective only really succeeded in one specific instance: as the name of a school of poets.

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