On This Day
Posted by Karen on January 21, 2025, 12:43 pm
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1936 - The death of HM King George V was publicly announced. He died the night before. It is now known his death was hastened. Lord Dawson of Penn was his primary physician and in his private diary, unearthed after his death and made public in 1986, revealed that he hastened the King's death by giving him a lethal combination of morphine and cocaine. Dawson noted that he acted to preserve the King's dignity, to prevent further strain on the family, and so that the King's death at 11:55 p.m. could be announced in the morning edition of The Times newspaper rather than "less appropriate evening journals". So accordingly on 21 January 1936 his death was announced in the Times newspaper's morning edition. 
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