King George V (1865-1936)

H.M.
George V
King of Great Britain and Ireland

1865-1936


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Vita


	full name:	George Frederick Ernest Albert Wettin [family name Wettin changed 1917.07.17 to Windsor, despite the existence of the Earldom of Windsor as one of the subsidiary titles of the Marquess of Bute, and the Viscountcy of Windsor and the Barony of Windsor, the latter both subsidiary titles of the Earls of Plymouth, whose family name had been Windsor till 1833, after which it became Windsor-Clive; House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha changed 1917 to House of Windsor]
	birth:	1865.06.03
	father:	Albert Edward Wettin (Edward VII)
	mother:	Alexandra Carolina Marie Charlotte Louise Julia of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess of Denmark
	accession:	1910.05.06
	coronation:	1911.06.22
	marriage:	1893.07.06: Mary of Teck
	children:	1894: Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor (Edward VIII) (1894) 1895: Albert Arthur Frederick George Windsor (George VI) 1897: Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary Windsor (The Princess Royal) 1900: Henry William Frederick Windsor (1st Duke of Gloucester) 1902: George Edward Alexander Edmund Windsor (1st Duke of Kent) 1905: Prince John Charles Francis Windsor (d.1919)
	death:	1936.01.20

Titles and Awards


	1865	Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke of Saxony [discontinued 17 July 1917]
	1892.05.24	Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killarney
	1901.01.22	Duke of Cornwall and York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killarney [heir apparent]
	1901.11.09	Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester
	1910.05.06	King of Great Britain, Ireland & British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India

	1884	Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG)
	1893	Knight of the Order of the Thistle (KT)
	1893	Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)
	1894	Privy Councillor of Great Britain (PC)
	1897	Knight of the Order of St. Patrick (KP)
	1897	Privy Councillor of Ireland (PC)
	1897	Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
	1901	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
	1901	Aide de Camp to the Queen (ADC) [to the King 1910; appointment relinquished upon aColonel-in-Chief,ession in 1910]
	1901	Grand Prior of the Order of St. John
	1902	Royal Victorian Chain
	1905	Grand Master of the Order of St Michael and St George
	1905	Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)
	1905	Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)
		Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (OStJ)
	1910	Sovereign of all British Orders of Knighthood
		[numerous foreign Orders and Decorations beyond the scope of this website]

Honorary Military Appointments


	<1890>		<rank?> 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment (Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland)
	1892.07.30		Honorary Colonel, The Suffolk Yeomanry (The Loyal Suffolk Hussars) [Colonel-in-Chief from 1910]
	1892.07.30		Honorary Colonel, 3rd Middlesex Volunteer Artillery [later 5th London Bde]
	1892.07.30		Honorary Colonel, 3rd Bn, The Prince of Wales's Own (The West Yorkshire Regiment)
	1897.02.03		Honorary Colonel, 5th (Isle of Wight, Princess Beatrice's) VB, The Hampshire Regiment [later 8th Bn]
	1899.10.04		Honorary Colonel, 1st (Duke of York's Own) Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse) [Colonel-in-Chief from 1910]
	1900.07.18		Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
	1901.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Marines
	1901.11.29		Honorary Colonel, 4th County of London Imperial Yeomanry (King's Colonials)
	1901.12.21		Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Welch Fusiliers
	1902.02.27		Honorary Colonel, 43rd Duke of Cornwall's Own Rifles [later Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa]
	1902.11.12		Colonel-in-Chief, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
	1903.10.22		Colonel-in-Chief, Artillery Regiment Nr. 12
	1904.05.01		Colonel-in-Chief, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
	<1905>		Colonel-in-Chief, Australian Light Horse [18 regiments]
	<1905>		Colonel-in-Chief, Transvaal Volunteers
	1906.01.14		Colonel-in-Chief, Imperial Light Horse
	1906.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, 18th Prince of Wales's Own Tiwana Lancers [in 1911 "King George's Own"]
	1906.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, 26th Prince of Wales's Own Light Cavalry [in 1911 "King George's Own"]
	1906.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, 38th Prince of Wales's Own Central India Horse [in 1911 "King George's Own"]
	1906.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, 39th Prince of Wales's Own Central India Horse [in 1911 "King George's Own"]
	1906.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, 1st Prince of Wales's Own Sappers and Miners [in 1911 "King George's Own"]
	1906.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, 14th Prince of Wales's Own Ferozepore Sikhs [in 1911 "King George's Own"]
	1906.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, 61st Prince of Wales's Own Pioneers [in 1911 "King George's Own"]
	1906.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, 130th Prince of Wales's Own Baluchis (Jacob's Rifles) [in 1911 "King George's Own"]
	1906.01.01		Colonel-in-Chief, 1st Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Rifles) [in 1911 "King George's Own"]
	<1908>		Chef, Kürassier-Regiment Graf Getzler
	1908.12.12		Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Canadian Dragoons
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, 1st Life Guards
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, 2nd Life Guards
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Horse Guards
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Regiment Artillery
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, Corps of Royal Engineers
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, Grenadier Guards
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, Coldstream Guards
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, Scots Guards
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, Irish Guards
	1910?		Colonel-in-Chief, 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
	1910?		Colonel-in-Chief, Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, The Norfolk Yeomanry
	1910.05.07		Captain-General and Honorary Colonel, The Honourable Artillery Company
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, 6th King Edward's Own Cavalry
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, 11th King Edward's Own Lancers (Probyn's Horse)
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, 102nd King Edward's Own Grenadiers
	1910.05.07		Colonel-in-Chief, 2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
	1910.10		Colonel-in-Chief, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
	1910.12.16		Honorary Colonel, Royal Malta Artillery
	1911.01?		Colonel-in-Chief, The Norfolk Regiment
	1911.04		Colonel-in-Chief, Ceylon Defence Force
	1912?		Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Flying Corps
	1912?		8th (Zamora) Infantry Regiment
	1912.10		Honorary Colonel, 1st (Canterbury) Regiment
	1912.10		Colonel-in-Chief, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles
	1912.12		Colonel-in-Chief, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
	1913.08.19		Colonel-in-Chief, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
	1913		Colonel-in-Chief, Cape Peninsula Regiment
	1915.08?		Colonel-in-Chief, Welsh Guards
	1918.11		Colonel-in-Chief, Tank Corps
	1918.11?		Colonel-in-Chief, Guards Machine Gun Regiment
	1919		Chief of the Royal Air Force
	1920.11.03		Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Canadian Artillery
	1921		Colonel-in-Chief, Skinner's Horse (1st Duke of York's Own) [on formation]
	1921		Colonel-in-Chief, Probyn's Horse (5th King Edward's Own) [on formation]
	1921		Colonel-in-Chief, 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry [on formation]
	1921		Colonel-in-Chief, 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry [on formation]
	1921		Colonel-in-Chief, 19th King George's Own Lancers [on formation]
	1921		Colonel-in-Chief, The Central India Horse (21st King George's Own Horse) [on formation]
	1922		Colonel-in-Chief, 1st Madras Pioneers [on formation]
	1922		Colonel-in-Chief, 4th Bombay Grenadiers [on formation]
	1922		Colonel-in-Chief, 10th Baluch Regiment [on formation]
	1922		Colonel-in-Chief, 11th Sikh Regiment [on formation]
	1922.04		Colonel-in-Chief, The Life Guards [on formation]
	1922		Colonel-in-Chief, 1st The Royal Dragoons
	1922?		Colonel-in-Chief, Officers' Training Corps
	1923.11		Colonel-in-Chief, 108th (Norfolk and Suffolk Yeomanry) Brigade, RFA [on formation]
	1925.09.09		Colonel-in-Chief, The King's African Rifles
	1927.01?		Colonel-in-Chief, The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
	1928		Colonel-in-Chief, West African Frontier Force
	1930.03?		Colonel-in-Chief, The Manchester Regiment
			Honorary Member, Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
			Admiral Danish Navy
			Admiral Swedish Navy
	<1921>		Field Marshal, Imperial Japanese Army

Military Service


	1877	Cadet, Royal Navy
	1880	Midshipman, Royal Navy
	1884	Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Navy
	1885	Lieutenant, Royal Navy
	1891	Commander, Royal Navy
	1893	Captain, Royal Navy
	1901	Rear-Admiral
	1902	General, Army
	1903	Vice-Admiral
	1907	Admiral
	1910.05.07	Admiral of the Fleet; Field Marshal of the Army

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