King George V and Queen Mary at Craigwell House, Aldwick, near Bognor Regis Size:L: 90 x 60cm ] within a champagne flute

] within a champagne flute

sits on his weary horse

1815 (19th century)

First Viscount Hood

King George V and Queen Mary at Craigwell House, Aldwick, near Bognor Regis Size:L: 90 x 60cm ] within a champagne fluteKing George V (1865 1936) and Queen Mary (1867 1953) at Craigwell House, Aldwick, near Bognor Regis, c1930s (1936). George, the second son of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark, was born at Marlborough House on 3rd June, 1865. In 1893 he married Princess Mary (with whom he had six children) and in 1910, upon the death of his father, he became king. In 1924 he appointed Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's first Labour Prime Minister, and in 1932 he introduced