George V

George V is the current King of the United Kingdom since 1910. He is the official Head of State of the UK and the other Commonwealth countries, as the figurehead of the British Empire. As King, he has witnessed the surge of socialism, communism, Fascism and Irish republicanism, as well as independence movements in colonies across the world. As the King, he appointed the first Labour ministry as well as the first leading Labour governing majority under Prime Minister Oswald Mosley. George V has been recognised as a strong and powerful King, one of the last leading monarchs in the world following the depositions of his first cousins Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. He is the first King of the House of Windsor, having changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha following anti-German public sentiment.