George V (Interplanetary Alliance)

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was the last King of the United Kingdom and most of the British Dominions, and the last Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his parliamentary trial and removal in 1923.

Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was third in the line of succession behind his father, Prince Albert Edward, and his own elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1891, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On the death of his grandmother in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became king-emperor on his father's death in 1910.

George V's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Scottish independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. As a result of the First World War (1914–1918), the empires of his first cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany fell, while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. In 1923 he appointed the first Labour ministry of Ramsay MacDonald without the consent of Parliament which elected Stanley Baldwin under a national unity government.

He was the only King of the United Kingdom to be declared in contempt of parliament for obstructing its duties. His allegiance with Ramsay MacDonald to obstruct Scottish independence, in the middle of a constitutional crisis was the decisive action that brought the United Kingdom of Great Britain to an end and the establishment of the United Republic of Caledonia.