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,
“... household’s advice that he produce a ‘mythological’ George, the modest father of his people. Jane Ridley’s new biography pushes back against the idea that nothing lay behind the imposing façade of George’s kingship. She not only suggests the discreet charm of her subject’s character, but argues that he was ‘the founder of the modern ... ”