Who Was The Last British Monarch To Be Murdered?

[Tchnfrq]

i dont know what suprises me more. that he had the balls to just decide the king should die now or that he had wrote it the fuck down.

[tscimb]

The Doc did follow that rule you hear about: "Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead."

[luisitobardajibenitez]

The morning papar: the king has peacefully passed in his sleep

The evening paper: *GUESS WHO JUST KICKED IT*

[MikeBenko]

The most mind boggling part of this story is that there was a time when newspapers had two whole editions a day. When I dug into it, sometimes newspapers had morning, afternoon and evening editions with possible extra editions for breaking news of great importance.

(Thus the whole newspaper boys yelling Extra Extra and when selling papers in movies.)

[GreatGraniteState]

Interesting American president thing: John Tyler, a fairly unremarkable president, had a stroke. He survived, (hadn't been president for years at this point), and his doctor came to check on him one normal day a few months later. Tyler was doing ok for a guy who had a stroke in the 1800s. He then said, "I am going now" to his doctor. The doctor said "I hope not, sir." Tyler said "I suppose it is best, " closed his eyes, and never said anything again.

[craigconner]

Side-note: Richard III was the last English king to die in battle in 1485, not the last British king. James IV of Scots died at Flodden in 1513.

[ondank]

We should all be so lucky to have a doctor who really cares about ensuring our death announcement hits the appropriately circulated paper.

[shubashuba]

Dude killed a king, got away with it and even gets the street cred after his death. What a gigachad.

[susanlynch]

The doctor is also alleged to have done the same thing to George V's sister, Queen Maud of Norway. She died unexpectedly in London in 1938.

[gibusgaming]

Bruh, so you're telling me Kaiser Wilhelm II was the only one of the 3 cousins to not get murdered in someway shape and/or form?

[parthiaball]

It's funny that I see the thumbnail and think, "Tzar Nicholas II? She's talking about stuff outside of English history now? I didn't realise it was George V since he and Nicky were cousins and dressed basically the same on purpose.

[AB_Evans]

Sepsis is an absolutely horrible way to go. It's unrelenting pain, aches, sickness (like never-ending nausea, muscle cramps, abdominal bloating, inflammation, organ failure...). His "euthanization" was likely done to help him deal with (and finally be free from) the complete misery he was likely feeling. If it were me, I'd welcome the freedom from it all via the medicine versus a slow, horrible death. And, well, he was a monarch, gotta go with the perfect timing! lol R.I.P.

[claytoniusdoesthings]

For any fellow Americans here, we have two states named after the first gentleman she mentions, Charles the First. They are North and South Carolina. The latinized version of Charles is Carolus. Hence, Carolina. Another tidbit for you, the James in Jamestown (Virginia) and King James Bible are the same man, King James Stuart.

[OofusTwillip]

My dad had a medically assisted death. It was the most humane, incredibly peaceful release from his suffering (he had mesothelioma) imaginable. Knowing how George V must have been suffering from septicemia, his death must have been a mercy-killing, despite the angle of trying to get it into the morning papers.

[katrinaolsen]

Yes! I heard about this on the “They Got Away With Murder” podcast/channel. The doctor told the nurse to give the injection and she refused. Then the doctor gave the King the injection and the King said, “Damn you!!” The King was definitely murdered. I have worked as a Hospice nurse and thankfully my patients were never in the situation where they were slowly being suffocated in their own fluids. If that were happening to me, I would want a Hot Shot of Morphine or Dilaudid. The King wasn’t suffering or suffocating either. He looked to be on track to make a recovery. But the doctor had other ideas. That same doctor murdered 2 or 3 more of the King’s siblings too. And I’m sure the Royal family weren’t the only people who had their ‘suffering relieved’ by this man. He is pretty much a textbook ‘Angel of Mercy’ serial killer. Only he wasn’t a woman and he wasn’t a nurse. So he had a lot more freedom and opportunities to “relieve people of their suffering”. So scary.

[Damocles]

Can anyone explain the subtle difference in definition between assassinated and murdered in this context? She was quite clear on this point, so I'm guessing there's a reason.

[nicholaswhitman]

When I tell you I hurt my knee slapping it just know it's the truth.

They just PUMPED A REGENT FULL OF COKE AND MORPHINE lmao

[ezra]

Coke and morphine? Damn he had one hell of an assassination

[ashleybellofsydney]

This fact was touched upon in the movie The King's Speech with Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.

[natureman]

George’s last words were allegedly “damn you” after getting injected