AS SEEN ON TV: GEORGE V

There's a new book out about the three cousins who basically controlled Europe in the years leading up to World War I:

GEORGE, NICHOLAS AND WILHELM
Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
By Miranda Carter
Illustrated. 498 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $30.

'KING GEORGE V

AS SEEN IN:
'Edward & Mrs. Simpson'

AS PLAYED BY:
Marius Goering

and....

AS SEEN IN:
"Clouds Of Witness" - a 'Lord Peter Wimsey' mystery

AS PLAYED BY:
George Cormack

From the New York Times review of that book, by Dwight Garner:

George was a dull mediocrity — he feared clever people and intellectuals, calling them “eyebrows” — who spent much of his time as an adult collecting stamps and shooting. He didn’t mix with interesting people, spoke no foreign languages and had what Ms. Carter calls a “barking temper.” He sulked if he was not allowed to win at tennis.

He remained standing far enough in the background in his "Clouds Of Witness" cameo so that we could claim that he was the same man seen in 'Edward & Mrs. Simpson'.

In the Wimsey mystery he was only identified as "The Royal Personage", but who else could he be?
Two for Tuesday!

BCnU!