The Hierophant
Michael Ledger-Lomas: Servant King, 10 March 2022
George V: Never a Dull Moment
by Jane Ridley.
Chatto, 559 pp., £30, November 2021,978 0 7011 8870 2 Show More
by Jane Ridley.
Chatto, 559 pp., £30, November 2021,
For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War
by Heather Jones.
Cambridge, 576 pp., £29.99, September 2021,978 1 108 42936 8 Show More
by Heather Jones.
Cambridge, 576 pp., £29.99, September 2021,
“... 20th-century Europe as the result of military defeat, something the Windsors were lucky to avoid.Heather Jones’s book places George in the broader historiography of European monarchy to explain the way the pressures of the First World War remade his dynasty. Although keen to establish the king as a player in wartime decision-making, most notably ... ”