George V
Autor Jane Ridleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2023
The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. However throughout his reign, the monarch navigated a constitutional crisis, the First World War, the fall of thirteen European monarchies and the rise of Bolshevism. The suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under his horse at the Derby, he refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar Nicholas II and he facilitated the first Labour government.
How this supposedly limited man steered the Crown through so many perils is a gripping tale. With unprecedented access to the Royal archives, Jane Ridley has been able to reassess the many myths associated with this dramatic period for the first time.
'Wonderful... Never a dull paragraph' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The Times
'Magnificent... An evocative and touching portrait of a surprisingly impressive man' Philip Hensher, Spectator
'A big, beautiful beast of a book. Fair, thorough and unexpectedly funny' Lucy Worsley
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780099590125
ISBN-10: 0099590123
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 132 x 198 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Vintage Books
ISBN-10: 0099590123
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 132 x 198 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Vintage Books
Recenzii
“A richly detailed and diverting new assessment of [George’s] life and reign.” — Washington Post
“Splendid….[Ridley’s] third outstanding royal biography… she’s untrammeled by any restraints… richly entertaining.” — New York Review of Books
"Superb . . . a perfectly candid portrait of our present Queen's grandfather: demythologised, certainly, and with spades called spades, but not trivialised, and not denied full credit for the massive amount he achieved . . . Ridley's convincing thesis [is] that George V was the true begetter of modern constitutional monarchy . . . this book makes it clear we were lucky to have him." — Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
"A 21st-century [biography] was overdue . . . and nobody could do it better than the immensely experienced Jane Ridley . . . The Windsors have always been emotionally handicapped, and in this respect George V was their prize exhibit." — Max Hastings, Sunday Times
“Succeeds, against all the odds, in being superbly un-dull. . . . Ridley has a wonderful ability to push the story along, luring us with salient details, even making one ‘fairy-tale of stamp-collecting’ riveting. Her account of the King’s death, secretly brought on late on the evening of January 20, 1936, by his doctor, Dawson, with a large dose of morphia and cocaine, so that it would appear in the next morning’s Times rather than the evening paper, is chilling. Never a dull paragraph.” — Air Mail
"A magnificent new life -- wonderfully funny, from its winning subtitle onwards, and full of human sympathy and understanding . . . an evocative and touching portrait of a surprisingly impressive man." — Philip Hensher, Spectator
"The best royal biography since James Pope-Hennessy's Queen Mary (1959) . . . rivetingly interesting . . . sheds an entirely new light on both George V and his consort . . . Jane Ridley persuades us that their tactful handling of the many crises of the reign paved the way for the stable constitutional monarchy that persists to this day." — A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
"Most biographers would shy away from the notoriously dull George V. Not so Ridley, whose biography of the stamp-collecting, bird-shooting king is top-notch." — Robbie Millen, The Times, *Books of the Year*
"Superb." — Iona McLaren, Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year*
"Jane Ridley's George V is so sparklingly incisive about both the king and Queen Mary that it almost counts as a double biography. The pheasant-shooting, stamp-collecting, moderating monarch and his bejewelled, shopaholic consort are beautifully portrayed in all their complexities." — Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Spectator, *Books of the Year*
"Sparkling." — Tony Rennell, Daily Mail Biographies of the Year
“Splendid….[Ridley’s] third outstanding royal biography… she’s untrammeled by any restraints… richly entertaining.” — New York Review of Books
"Superb . . . a perfectly candid portrait of our present Queen's grandfather: demythologised, certainly, and with spades called spades, but not trivialised, and not denied full credit for the massive amount he achieved . . . Ridley's convincing thesis [is] that George V was the true begetter of modern constitutional monarchy . . . this book makes it clear we were lucky to have him." — Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
"A 21st-century [biography] was overdue . . . and nobody could do it better than the immensely experienced Jane Ridley . . . The Windsors have always been emotionally handicapped, and in this respect George V was their prize exhibit." — Max Hastings, Sunday Times
“Succeeds, against all the odds, in being superbly un-dull. . . . Ridley has a wonderful ability to push the story along, luring us with salient details, even making one ‘fairy-tale of stamp-collecting’ riveting. Her account of the King’s death, secretly brought on late on the evening of January 20, 1936, by his doctor, Dawson, with a large dose of morphia and cocaine, so that it would appear in the next morning’s Times rather than the evening paper, is chilling. Never a dull paragraph.” — Air Mail
"A magnificent new life -- wonderfully funny, from its winning subtitle onwards, and full of human sympathy and understanding . . . an evocative and touching portrait of a surprisingly impressive man." — Philip Hensher, Spectator
"The best royal biography since James Pope-Hennessy's Queen Mary (1959) . . . rivetingly interesting . . . sheds an entirely new light on both George V and his consort . . . Jane Ridley persuades us that their tactful handling of the many crises of the reign paved the way for the stable constitutional monarchy that persists to this day." — A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
"Most biographers would shy away from the notoriously dull George V. Not so Ridley, whose biography of the stamp-collecting, bird-shooting king is top-notch." — Robbie Millen, The Times, *Books of the Year*
"Superb." — Iona McLaren, Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year*
"Jane Ridley's George V is so sparklingly incisive about both the king and Queen Mary that it almost counts as a double biography. The pheasant-shooting, stamp-collecting, moderating monarch and his bejewelled, shopaholic consort are beautifully portrayed in all their complexities." — Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Spectator, *Books of the Year*
"Sparkling." — Tony Rennell, Daily Mail Biographies of the Year
Notă biografică
Jane Ridley is a professor of history at the University of Buckingham, where she teaches an MA course on biography. Her books include The Young Disraeli, 1804?1846, acclaimed by Robert Blake as definitive; The Architect and His Wife, a highly praised study of the architect Edwin Lutyens and his relationship with his troubled wife, which won the Duff Cooper Prize; and Victoria, written for the Penguin Monarchs series. Her most recent full biography, The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince (published in the UK as Bertie: A Life of Edward VII), was a Sunday Times bestseller and one of the most critically acclaimed books of 2013. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Ridley writes book reviews for the Spectator and other newspapers, and has also been featured on radio and appeared on several television documentaries. She lives in London and Scotland.