King George V admiring allotments on Clapham Common, London Size:XS: 30 x 20cm south-western Sumatra

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British Conservative statesman and philanthropist

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King George V admiring allotments on Clapham Common, London Size:XS: 30 x 20cm south-western SumatraKing George V (1865 1936) admiring allotments on Clapham Common, London, c1910s c1920s (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 the idea of