Sentence examples for George V from high-quality English sources.

• King George V, a grandson of Queen Victoria, inherited the throne in 1910.

• Elizabeth was born into royalty as the daughter of the second son of King George V.

• Among the adulatory telegrams was a missive from George V offering “hearty congratulations”.

• King George V personally visited the Corps in 1917 and highlighted their importance in the war effort.

• King George V and his wife Mary of Teck had six children together between 1894 and 1905.

• In response to rising anti-German sentiments, George V decided to make a considerable PR move.

• As president of the event, Edward, Prince of Wales, asks his father, King George V, to open the proceedings.

• The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) was proclaimed as such by George V, king of the United Kingdom, on August 16, 1911.

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• Mr Baldwin proceeded with a King's Speech, under George V, despite having lost his majority in the previous month's general election.

• The case study featured ‘Lea Anne B’ a 53-year-old milliner who became convinced that the English King George V was in love with her.

• And she finds out how King George V betrayed his cousin by opposing the British government’s offer of asylum to the tsar and his family.

• Ms. de Havilland’s readings of scripture on Christmas and Easter at the American Cathedral, on the Avenue George V, became annual events in Paris.

• The photograph, taken in June 1922, shows King George V standing on the steps of Buckingham Palace with his son Prince Edward, the future King Edward VIII.

• London City Airport—the capital’s smallest but closest international terminal, located between the King George V and Royal Albert docks—was opened in 1987.

• Queen Elizabeth II does personally own certain items in the collection, including an immense royal stamp collection her father King George V passed down to her.

• Among the royalty buried within the chapel are Edward IV, Henry VI, Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Charles I, Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and George V and Queen Mary.

George V sentence examples

• With the situation rapidly sliding towards violent confrontation, King George V intervened to bring the parties together at Buckingham Palace for an emergency conference in July 1914.

• In my speech on that occasion, I quoted George V when he said, “I appeal to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and forget and to join in making for the land which they love a new era of peace, contentment and goodwill.”

• Mary of Teck, in full Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, (born May 26, 1867, Kensington Palace, London—died March 24, 1953, London), queen consort of King George V of Great Britain and the mother of kings Edward VIII (afterward duke of Windsor) and George VI.

• The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, British order of knighthood instituted in 1917 by King George V to reward both civilian and military wartime service, although currently the honour is bestowed for meritorious service to the government in peace as well as for gallantry in wartime.