Was GEORGE V KILLED by one of his attendants? The King died at Sandringham House on the night of 20 January 1936 and for fifty years, it was believed he had passed away purely as the result of natural causes. Indeed bulletins published at the time said as much, warning people that ‘the King’s life is moving peacefully towards its close’ before later informing them that ‘Death has come peacefully to the King at 11.55pm’. That seemed to be that. There was a grand funeral and soon the country was caught up in a royal scandal of epic proportions surrounding the abdication of the new monarch, Edward VIII, so that he could marry Wallis Simpson.
The world moved on from George but then, in 1986, the diaries of his doctor Bertrand Dawson, Viscount Dawson of Penn were published and revealed a shocking secret; nothing less than the murder of George V, followed by a fifty-year cover-up. The monarch had been given a fatal overdose by Lord Penn, supposedly to ease his suffering and quicken his end so that the death of George V could be announced in the morning papers, rather than the evening ones. So is this a modern case of regicide and how have the royal family responded to the revelations? In this royal history documentary from History Calling, we look at the final hours of George V, at his cause of death and at whether or not he was killed for convenience’s sake.
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