While it may be true that the only certainties in this world are death and taxes, we do bumble through our lives with the expectation that our physicians will not knowingly prematurely end us. At least, most of us do. But for British royals in the 1930s, the royal physician, Lord Bertrand Dawson, was making decisions he arguably had no right to make – not only for the mortally ill George V, but two years later, for his sister, Queen Maud of Norway.
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Controversy Flares Over King’s Mercy Killing (latimes.com)
Two less than mysterious royal deaths (talkhistorian.com)
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Murder of a King? The Curious Death of George V (bournbrookmag.com)
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How Did King George V Really Die? (britannica.com)
A king, a doctor, and a convenient death (bmj.com)
