George V Quotes
I may be uninspired but I’ll be damned if I’m an alien.
It was in the midst of the First World War. The king was not very charismatic and the “alien” criticism referred to the extensive intermarriage between the British royal family and the royalty of Europe—especially Germany. Although the defense was witty, the royal family actually changed the official family name to the one we know today and most do not realize that it was newly adopted to solve this problem of perceived alien influences: The House of Windsor.
George V, 1865-1936, King of England & Ireland, Emperor of India, Response to criticism of H. G. Wells who had written that his court was “uninspired and alien.”
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1st Viscount Lyons
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.