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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit
Episode: The Death of King George V: A Royal Murder Mystery
Description: Just before midnight on January 20, 1936, King George V died at Sandringham, in Norfolk, England. The scandal of King George Vās reign would not be revealed publicly until 1986, in the diary of his physician, Lord Bertrand Dawson. Dawson had written about the night of January 20, detailing that he had injected the king with a lethal concoction of morphine and cocaine, intending to both grant the king a painless death and to guarantee that his passing would be announced in the morning papers rather than the evening journals.Jane Ridley is a historian, author and broadcaster who te...