King George V’s House Was Much DARKER Than You Thought

Sandringham was the house George V called the place he loved better than anywhere else in the world. It was also an estate where every clock ran half an hour fast, where guests were weighed on the way in and out, and where the future king and queen raised six children in a cramped cottage while a nanny hurt one of them for years unnoticed. In 1916 their youngest son, Prince John, who had epilepsy, was moved to Wood Farm, two miles from his parents, and died there in 1919 at thirteen. In 1915 a company of men from the estate went to war at Gallipoli and, for years, were said to have simply vanished. On 20 January 1936 the King's doctor, Lord Dawson, wrote on a menu card that the King's life was "moving peacefully towards its close." His own diary, made public fifty years later, showed that he then hastened the death with morphine and cocaine, partly so it could be announced in the morning papers. This video follows the house from the clocks to the night they were finally reset. It goes on to the sale of Sandringham back to the family and to Wood Farm's later residents, including Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was arrested there in 2026 on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He has not been charged and denies wrongdoing.