King George V at war

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🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Alexandra Churchill considers the impact of the British monarch on the First World War, and explores the question of whether he could have done more to save his cousin Tsar Nicholas II. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.3	George, George Vith is a warrior. He's not a confident man. He does suffer from anxiety.
0:55.0	And yet every time he left the palace in World War I, he had to present this front of confidence, this attitude that if we all just stick together, we're going to win,
1:01.7	because everybody's looking to people like him for confirmation that, is this going to be all right?
1:06.0	That was Alexandra Churchill on the anxieties of King George V.
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1:37.4	In today's episode, you'll be hearing from the author and historian,
1:41.6	Alexander Churchill, whose latest book is In The Eye of the Storm,
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