The Double Life of King George V — Hidden for Years

A secret wife and children in Malta? In 1911, a jury found the story about King George V to be an invention. But the gap between his public image and the private record opens a different story. This documentary traces the future king's early years: his close family ties, his account of bullying aboard HMS Britannia, and the three-year voyage that took him around the world. Discover the tattoos he acquired in Japan and Jerusalem, the newspaper rumor that alarmed his mother, and his unsuccessful courtship of his cousin Marie. Drawing on testimony, diaries, letters, and accounts quoted by his biographers, we follow the evidence behind the familiar sailor-king portrait—and separate a royal scandal from the life the records actually describe. #RoyalHistory #BritishRoyalFamily #HistoryDocumentary #BritishHistory #KingGeorgeV #GeorgeV #HouseOfWindsor #RoyalScandal #RoyalNavy #VictorianEra