King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
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He reigned through the First World War, watched two cousin emperors fall, and in 1917 scrubbed his own family name of its German roots — rebranding the British monarchy as the House of Windsor while the empire he led reached its widest span.
George Frederick Ernest Albert was born 3 June 1865, second son to the Prince of Wales, third in line behind an older brother expected to be king. He spent fifteen years in the Royal Navy until January 1892, when his brother's sudden death pulled him back to the succession. The next year he married his late brother's fiancée, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck; they had six children. He became Prince of Wales in 1901 when his father took the throne as Edward VII, then king-emperor in 1910. His twenty-six-year reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian…
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After a struggle longer and far more terrible than anyone could have foretold, the soil of Britain remains inviolate.
We have to create a better Britain, to bestow more care on the health and well-being of the people, and to ameliorate further the conditions of labour.
In these years Britain and her traditions have come to mean more to us than they had ever meant before.
For centuries past Britain has led the world along the path of ordered freedom. Leadership may still be hers among the peoples who are seeking to follow that path.
It has always been my dream that the two English-speaking nations should some day be united in a great cause, and to-day my dream is realized.
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