The Murder of King George V, 1936

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • / @shortstoriesfordarkni...
    When King George V died on the evening of 20th January 1936, it was famously said that upon being told he would soon be well enough to visit Bognor to recuperate, he uttered his last words: "Bugger Bogner!" he said. He then died, surrounded by his loving family. But it was a lie: it was only discovered 50 years later, when the diary of his doctor Lord Dawson of Penn was examined, that the King had been murdered... Upon its discovery in 1986, the response to the events of that evening was muted in the press, and ever since it has been handled with great - and unwarranted - circumspection. And yet it is a fact that one, and quite probably 2, famous men got away with murder that night...
    King George V
    Murder of King George V
    They Got Away With Murder
    Mark John Maguire
    True Crime
    Murder Mystery
    Regicide
    True Crime Documentary

Комментарии • 6 тыс.

  • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
    @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +228

    A number of people have asked if they can help support my channel - I don't have any adverts on my channel (and don't intend to) but if anyone wishes to help defray the expenses of making these videos in some small way, they can buy me a cup of coffee! www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkJohnMaguire

    • @motuza8482
      @motuza8482 2 года назад +21

      I love this, cheers to many coffees for Mr. Maguire ☕

    • @evelynkeating2763
      @evelynkeating2763 2 года назад +12

      Very well told.

    • @originalnightshade4582
      @originalnightshade4582 Год назад +11

      Well done!. Just wondering....what if not only Edward was a Nazi sympathizer, but Dr. Death Dawson might well of been too? At some point writing this it almost certainly crossed your mind?

    • @dianedo1234
      @dianedo1234 Год назад +6

      You are very sweet and kind! I am not working right now, although I am an American Anglophile. I began with Henry VIII (why did he kill those women!) then jumped to Victoria. (Gee, Albert kept her pregnant!) This is my only IOU on RUclips! I hope to work soon, I have been ill, not terminal! Good job!! Thank you, Sir.

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  Год назад +17

      @@originalnightshade4582 There are a number of photos I came across with Dawson at Bertchesgarden (sp?) with Hitler, on a trip there with Lloyd George. I didn't want to make anything of this, because a great many people at this time were persuaded that Hitler was doing a wonderful job, having turned Germany around after the chaos of the 1920s... But I have a suspicion there is a great deal more to be said about Dawson!

  • @juliejulie1545
    @juliejulie1545 2 года назад +585

    Who agrees this channel is super-informative and entertaining!

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +25

      You are very kind, Julie!

    • @vickiewallace415
      @vickiewallace415 2 года назад +37

      I had no idea about this. As a student of History I do feel like I've missed a giant piece of the 20th century... Thank you for all you've done and continue to do!

    • @KellyfromMemphis
      @KellyfromMemphis 2 года назад +21

      One of THE BEST I feel!

    • @insuretec
      @insuretec 2 года назад +21

      My Republican leanings engender me to avoid the intricacies of 'Royal' behaviour, but I found this a fascinating, engaging and excellent presentation of the corruption of power.

    • @cherbeatTX59
      @cherbeatTX59 2 года назад +6

      YES!!!!! One of my favorites!!!!!

  • @larry-naylor
    @larry-naylor 2 года назад +38

    As someone who lost a loved one to epilepsy I can tell you that death in epilepsy is sadly not that rare. There is a condition called SUDEp (Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy) that can effect anyone with epilepsy at any age, regardless of how well managed their symptoms are or how long they've had the condition. Basically it's SIDS for epileptics. Damien, my partner, died of a massive traumatic brain injury as a result of a seizure and was only diagnosed post mortem so there's also that as well.

    • @claudia-aquarius5079
      @claudia-aquarius5079 2 года назад +7

      I did not know about this situation with epileptic's. I have a friend and relative who have this condition. I wonder if they know about it.

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +8

      I am sorry for your loss, Lara - I apologise of I have inadvertently caused any distress to you or seemed to belittle the disease. This certainly was not my intention. I understand that 1.16 deaths occur per 1000 cases amongst epileptics, according to CDC - a small but definite risk compared to the general population.

    • @susanhepburn6040
      @susanhepburn6040 2 года назад +3

      I am so sorry for your loss, Lara.

    • @frahn1702
      @frahn1702 2 года назад +1

      I’m sorry to hear that 😢

    • @bonniemagpie5166
      @bonniemagpie5166 2 года назад +3

      When it comes to Dawson and his evident guilt during many other occasions and the fact that King George and Queen Mary were both abruptly impatient with their son Prince John, sending him away to live in isolation, thank goodness he had a Governess who loved him, she pleaded to Queen Mary to allow him to have same age friends to come and visit him, this aspect wasn't even in Prince John's own mother. 1919, Dawson still looks guilty upon Prince John's final fate. It was as though he couldn't help himself.

  • @MightyMezzo
    @MightyMezzo 2 года назад +23

    My mother tells me that when she was little, she thought that Franklin D. Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII were both immortal. I have to wonder if there are little kids in the UK who are sure that Her Majesty Elizabeth II is immortal.
    Fascinating story. I’ve felt that the British nation dodged a bullet when Edward VIII decided that he’d rather marry Wallis than be king.

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +5

      I agree, Elizabeth - and thank you!

    • @carollucey111
      @carollucey111 2 года назад +4

      William is the only hope they have of keeping the institution alive, Charles and Andrew have done so much damage,especially Andrew, he's a spoilt brat

    • @carollucey111
      @carollucey111 2 года назад +2

      @@alexanderromanov737 Not one bit surprised Alex, his arrogance in the bbc doc about Epstein was very revealing, he's a disgrace to the family.

    • @carollucey111
      @carollucey111 2 года назад +3

      @@alexanderromanov737 I know, it's shocking one family can have that amount of wealth, especially when you know where it all came from. The wealth belongs to the people, they should be able to dip into it to help alleviate the poverty in the country ect

    • @Ethericrose
      @Ethericrose 2 года назад +2

      When I was around 4yrs old the Queen came to my town, it was pouring with rain yet we stood there waiting for her car to pass by so we could wave with our small flags. That was the early 70s and I was definitely told the Queen was immortal. Thankfully I'm someone who can think for myself, and soon realised she was nothing more than the Head of a corrupt organisation called the "Monarchy"!

  • @jeanjacobs7719
    @jeanjacobs7719 11 месяцев назад +23

    My lovely kind father aged 85 was murdered in hospital.
    He was seriously ill but would have recovered with good treatment.
    Chronic bed shortages hastened his awful death.
    So cruel
    Admitted with pneumonia.
    Put him beside an open window, remove any warm bed covers.
    Oh Dad - you deserved a better ending than this.

    • @greedi2675
      @greedi2675 11 месяцев назад +7

      They seem to do that a lot. At least to my family. Like my father having nothing to drink while the nurses where watching tv.

    • @lindajohnston2032
      @lindajohnston2032 11 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@greedi2675 I agree. Keep the elderly out of hospital so they don't get euthanized.

    • @rotax636nut5
      @rotax636nut5 11 месяцев назад +5

      Similar thing with both my own father and my father in law, I spent a few weeks in hospital myself recently after a motor accident and for sure some of the nurses tried their best to kill me, I was given a hospital acquired staph infection, then, they refused me antibiotics until I was within hours of death, it was only by my own extreme efforts and luck and my son's that I survived. I'll make this clear, it was the nursing staff that were the problem not the doctors, when I saw a specialist after the 8 week stay in hospital he said to me 'I hear you had a few problems while you were in Gloucester Royal,' I was about to speak when he raised his voice and continued 'it was the fukking nurses wasn't it, the fukking nurses caused all the problems didn't they', I swear this account is completely true..

    • @sandrawhelan9159
      @sandrawhelan9159 10 месяцев назад +1

      So sorry about your
      dad. The care that you get in hospitals these days is abysmal, especially the elderly. My sister suffered respiratory failure in hospital, even though she had constantly told them she was struggling.Fortunately they did revive her, but from then on I sat by her bedside from morning till lights out, she was so frightened. I was lucky that I could do this, but I know it’s an impossibility for most. I thought nursing was to look after the sick, but not sure anymore.

    • @michaelgoulding6609
      @michaelgoulding6609 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@rotax636nut5 yes i agree with you 100% & the nurses have the cheek to go on strike for more pay, saying they can,t manage on their wages, when they already get paid double or treble what other people have to live on, & when in hospital they are nasty with you if you ask for anything, i used to have to get out of bed using a zimmer frame with one hand & filling my jug & other people,s with water cos nurses said they were too busy, btw not all are the same, but the nasty ones def stand out, & when the surgeons & doc,s do their weekly walkabout. Usuly on a thursday, You should see the nurses then, rushing around & acculy doing their job, you def need to sleep with one eye open when in hospital. & ask what everything is & what its for before taking it, i woke up in the dark, with one of the nasty nurses pushing tablets in my mouth, (it was like something out of a horror film.. & something i,ll never forget cos when it was the start of her 4 days in at work, cos they work 4 on, 4 off.. me & others dreaded it, & the thoughts of this perticular nurse sends shiver.s down my spine, her voice alone would turn milk sour) when i asked what they were that she was giving me, she said they are pain killer,s & that i should be lucky i was getting them as they were short of them, i said i.m not in any pain & if you are short of them, then keep them for people that are in pain & need them, she should.ve known that if i.d been in pain, i wouldn.t have been flat out asleep.

  • @terrylee5843
    @terrylee5843 2 года назад +304

    As a retired hospice nurse, you do not give a large dose of morphine to someone who can talk. I think the nurse was giving him a correct comfort dose, then the doctor gave the large fatal doses. That's not how it done. The will to live is immense, the body will fight to the very last moment to live. It is frequent small doses to maintain relaxed comfort so the patient can slip into the arms of the creator.

    • @roisinwalpole377
      @roisinwalpole377 2 года назад +33

      Beautifully expressed Terry.

    • @Dragonfly33
      @Dragonfly33 2 года назад +18

      Thank you for this post.

    • @thomaskallmyr
      @thomaskallmyr 2 года назад +23

      My Daddy was killed by mean dozes of Dopamin,and no nutricion,and 5 days he was heavy kipping for oxygene.
      Maraton and the Doctor killed him with dopamindozes. He died 1sth of December 2019. Helge Kallmyr born 1931- 2019. R.i.p.

    • @JZ-gr1tz
      @JZ-gr1tz 2 года назад +5

      haven't go thru entirely story of the video but by exp also working with hospice patients is what another comment
      At first lower dosis and eventually with in a week or two.
      Usually is to prevent the patient from suffering. Specially those with cancer.

    • @daremiller3439
      @daremiller3439 2 года назад +1

      I hope

  • @RobinaDunstan
    @RobinaDunstan Год назад +19

    My husband's great aunt who died in 2002 at 103, very sharp witted. She believed it could be possible he was murdered and wasn't surprised at his diary. She was in the similar social circle as Lord Dawson and didn't like him.

    • @2anthro
      @2anthro Год назад +6

      It is common knowledge George V was "pushed over" for the media's sake. Its the other royals' demise at this physician's hand that is astonishing!!

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  Год назад

      That is fascinating - thank you, Susannah...

  • @petermckenzie5124
    @petermckenzie5124 2 года назад +69

    I don’t think I’m ready for this one!! Wowza!! Another essay so quickly…I’m still reeling from Madame X (plus revisiting some of your previous videos). Totally magnificent Mark John Macguire👍✨

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +5

      Thank you very much, Peter - and for the mention of my book!

    • @mauricedavis2160
      @mauricedavis2160 2 года назад +5

      He is one of the best hands down, period!!!🙏👏😷

    • @sherrihinton8567
      @sherrihinton8567 2 года назад +4

      I often revisit these outstanding stories

  • @vanessashaw2159
    @vanessashaw2159 Месяц назад +6

    I must say, of all your documentaries, this is easily "the crown jewel." I could not tear myself away. If I did have to leave the room for any reason, I would return and immediately rewind (thanks to modern technology) just to ensure that I caught every juicy morsel. As always, your research is thorough.. your summations are clear and well founded. I literally had never heard any of this before. The indebt revelation of the Duke of Windsor was almost as shocking as the events surrounding the murder of King George himself. We, in the States, had always been led to believe that the Duke was a mild-mannered, shy, love struck romantic who had sacrificed all for "the love and support" of the woman he loved. We never knew about his association with the Nazi Party. That image of him executing the Nazi salute was jarring, and I had never heard of nor seen it before. Another surprise was the blanket contempt of Mrs. Wallace Simpson .... the general consensus of her being of unsuitable character, (considering how the monarch came to be was rather hypocritical), let alone the potential wife of a king... and the obligation of the Duke of Windsor to his legacy is all so very intriguing. At the center of this royal intrigue is of course, Lord Dawson who it appears was allowed to freely practice euthanasia under the very nose (in cahoots?) of the British royal family and all those who had pledged loyalty to the crown. How a commoner could have insulated himself into the fabric of one of the most powerful royal families in the world is mind-boggling. But he did it. The word "scandal" doesn't begin to cover the magnitude of such betrayal. It reads like a throwback to the reign of King Henry the VIII. Well done!

  • @williamf4544
    @williamf4544 Год назад +15

    I was asked by the doctor if i wanted them to keep my father alive - it was explained they could indeed keep him alive but his facalties had gone - basically it was a choice of just letting hi go naturally or prolong his life but leaving him with no quality of life and not even able to know who i was or where he was - very difficult to decide - tormenting

  • @oldcollegecoed
    @oldcollegecoed 9 месяцев назад +19

    I’m a WWII/Holocaust scholar and became interested in Simpson through her connection to Hitler, and I recently had some time to do a little research on her, which included dozens of letters she wrote to her husband, Ernest Simpson, during the 6 years she was involved with Edward and still married to him. And in those letters, she constantly professes her love for her husband while simultaneously ridiculing Edward. She consistently complained about his obsession with her, was blunt about being disgusted by his whiny, pouty behavior., and hated that he lived on an allowance and never worked. In fact, she told her husband that she begged Edward to end the affair and take the throne, because she thoroughly enjoyed being in their open marriage, and she wasn’t ready settle down with anyone, much less the foppish prince. She detested the British aristocracy and upper classes who looked down on her, and she understood that if she did marry Edward, they would be ostracized, but according to her, Edward refused to believe her when she warned him of what his future was going to be if they married. She also shared how she was so frustrated by his deliberate ignorance of reality, that she struggled to be civil to him, and she told her husband that no matter how badly she treated Edward, he refused to end the affair. Her biggest fear was that he would abdicate and then she’d have to marry him out of guilt over what he gave up to marry her. Ironically, she was right about what her future with Edward would be. She was miserable with him and made his life miserable!

    • @newtexan1
      @newtexan1 9 месяцев назад +5

      I’ve a lot of the sane info. Bravo. Well said. People are so deceived by their relationship.

    • @clintgreggory2549
      @clintgreggory2549 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yes , BUT! , she was a cruel gold digger too.AND , She went too far when she flaunted the affair to the detriment of the better man , Simpson & DIVORCED. She wanted to be Queen. Why divorce , again if not? Edward 8 was a vain an ill educated man , who , like prince Harry , loves the privilege, despises the work.

    • @TheKulu42
      @TheKulu42 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@clintgreggory2549 Agreed. If Simpson wanted to end the affair, why didn't she go back to America? Of all the men she had affairs with, Edward was the best "catch" she ever had. She thought that he could make her a queen or at least a royal consort. And she could dominate him. He offered too much to simply dump because he was whiny and pouty.

    • @georgewyatt4912
      @georgewyatt4912 6 месяцев назад +1

      Edward was bi or gay he had a weird relationship with mountbatten. Also blown up to hide his scandalous dealings with children in the Kincora orphanage paedo exposure

    • @user-bb8zc3wo9b
      @user-bb8zc3wo9b 6 месяцев назад

      Thank you for this precious info! Learning never stops

  • @barbaralamson7450
    @barbaralamson7450 2 года назад +14

    You are that amazing voice that never disappoints. The gravity of any story told aloud must have a voice to carry it through, carry it without bias. You have that voice.
    I am ever grateful of the day I found you.
    Thank you.

  • @Nigelsmom2136
    @Nigelsmom2136 Год назад +129

    Making a terminally ill patient comfortable is one thing. Hurrying up the outcome is murder.

    • @Moonstorms
      @Moonstorms Год назад +12

      They do it here in Australia if you’ve got cancer and you’re on your deathbed they make sure they’ll fill you up with morphine so that you can’t take your last breath because the morphine takes it for you.

    • @anthonyhebert5630
      @anthonyhebert5630 Год назад +11

      Compassion

    • @juliev.3340
      @juliev.3340 Год назад +5

      Euthanasia?

    • @BevHart
      @BevHart Год назад +3

      ​@@MoonstormsI just read your comment about the use of morphine in Australia. How do you know that this happens. Just interested because as an aged care nurse for more than 30 years I am very curious where you get your information from.

    • @PetroicaRodinogaster264
      @PetroicaRodinogaster264 Год назад +3

      @@BevHart where do you live.
      I was told that that was the norm in nursing homes and hospices 40 yrs ago by a nurse who worked in one in Australia. If you only worked in a hospital you may not be aware of it. A little bit too much morphine just slows the breathing until finally a last one is taken without pain. Thats how I would want to go.
      But now in 2023 legal but closely supervised euthanasia in most of Australia.

  • @possumaintdead
    @possumaintdead 2 года назад +39

    Your content is some of the best on RUclips! I always grab a cup of coffee, put my feet up and get ready for a treat as soon as I see you have a new video up. This one was particularly bone chilling. The doctor was nothing more or less than a serial killer. And Edward truly was a snake. Thanks so much for covering this. Unbelievable!

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +5

      Thank you very much!

    • @stephaniesealy9375
      @stephaniesealy9375 2 года назад +4

      Mark is always so humble, but he is an amazing talent who uses the English language as it should be! Both poetic & scientifically accurate and beautiful to listen to!

    • @jamesoneill2933
      @jamesoneill2933 Год назад

      @nwf5187 I feel that we're missing something here though , the common denominator, to my mind at least, is that the royals are a hard bitten lot.
      Cards on the table , I am an Irish republican and make zero apologies for it.
      These people are, genetically speaking identical to their German counterparts.
      Staunch eugenicists , convinced , to a man ,of their own moral, religious and in particular ,genetical superiority , this was not confined to royalty but rather replete throughout the upper echelons of society, with Churchill arguably a bigger proponent than Adolph himself, in short , they are all N4zis.
      In a society convinced ,for over one thousand years ,of their own superiority in all fields, how could they not be ?

  • @lauraorem1276
    @lauraorem1276 2 года назад +25

    So basically George V died from a speedball - the same way John Belushi did.
    I've done research on Prince John for a writing project, but I never connected to dots to Dawson. He certainly isn't the first or last doctor to murder his patients - and just because you work for the royal family doesn't mean you can't be a psychopath. As for Edward, he was such an awful hot mess of a person, I wouldn't put anything past him.
    Great episode!

  • @dandydante7924
    @dandydante7924 Год назад +427

    As a native of England I will never forgive this monarchy for allowing Nicholas and his family to be killed. They say.. blood makes you relative.. loyalty makes you family.

    • @dandydante7924
      @dandydante7924 Год назад +43

      @言行一致 wow. Thanks for the reply! I appreciate the explanation. Very interesting. I still don't think They deserved to die like that.. but that being said the more I dig, it seems ol' Nicky was ready for what was coming. Atleast mentally. All is gods will and whatever happens, happens. That type of vibe. I just think of Maria and Alexei they didn't deserve that. I'm not even Religious or even Russian. But I find myself deeply affected by the Romanov downfall

    • @alanaadams7440
      @alanaadams7440 Год назад +47

      I agree they could have taken the Tsar and family and hidden them in the country or seen to it they would go to another country where they would be safe. Cowardly King

    • @macolga100
      @macolga100 Год назад +26

      As a native of Russia I couldnt care less for Nicholas and his wife, who broke Russia and made so much violence inevitable. They made their own beds. Shame for the kids, of course.

    • @finalflowerchild
      @finalflowerchild Год назад +8

      They were too worried about their own -----! Why would anyone look up to them?

    • @pointsofsue2487
      @pointsofsue2487 Год назад +21

      If the Royal Family would have taken the Czar and his family how long do uou think the Windsors would have lasted? The Romanovs would have interfered in politics, made demands as though they still ruled and created so many issues, that they could not be trusted. The King had to put this country first, and you cannot have a man responsible for the murder of thousands swanning round the country.

  • @christinebiada1292
    @christinebiada1292 2 года назад +22

    Out of all the videos I’ve watched - this by far is my favorite. I find British royal family and history of the monarchy interesting- probably because I’m an American and we don’t have a long history. Romans were in England along with the Vikings, Norman Conquest, all these events helped shape England. I love history!

  • @jackteare8292
    @jackteare8292 2 года назад +26

    Did not disappoint, absolutely superb. Revealing and rivetting.

  • @raddimusmcchoyber3362
    @raddimusmcchoyber3362 2 года назад +26

    Another excellent episode Mr Maguire. An interesting story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told. A winning formula for the channel!

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +2

      Many thanks indeed!

    • @ninasharda6810
      @ninasharda6810 2 года назад

      q

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 2 года назад

      @@TheyGotAwayWithMurder I have to wonder if anybody has tried to make a movie or miniseries of this in the UK and if so if they were met with resistance by those in high places .
      Also that poor nurse ... I have to wonder if she did tell some people what she had observed and knew about Dawson either after he died or when she was much older .
      If she died around loved ones , I imagine her doing a deathbed confession but perhaps the recipient of her secrets being too afraid to make that information known to others .
      Then again , it's possible that the saying about Dawson of Penn did not originate from people at the top ... but perhaps from THAT good nurse to other nurses whom she befriended and trusted ... then THEY repeated it ... it is possible , I do believe ....

  • @jeanross7430
    @jeanross7430 2 года назад +28

    Edward now has a great, great grand nephew who behaves in a very similar fashion.

  • @Xxxxxx19-p1c
    @Xxxxxx19-p1c Год назад +17

    Your voice, your stories… very soothing, relaxing. Takes me back to a world gone away; memories seem like yesterday.

  • @lynhugell6563
    @lynhugell6563 2 года назад +27

    I find the narrator's voice wonderfully soothing.

  • @leostitcher
    @leostitcher 2 года назад +22

    Thoroughly enthralling I always thought of the Prince Edward and Wallace Simpson affair as a romantic love story. Now it's more like Wallace Simpson may have saved England. Great story. Love the deep look into historical figures. Thank you.

  • @drmoss_ca
    @drmoss_ca 2 года назад +38

    I'm not five minutes in yet, but have to say this was an open secret among English physicians. Ten years before Dawson's diary was published I was taught about it at medical school in London. The motivation was for the announcement to coincide with the publication of the day's newspapers. It was not told to us as an example of either good or bad medical behaviour (that we could easily decide for ourselves), but more with amusement that such goings on were thought important to orchestrate simply for 'appearances'.
    BTW, the combination of morphine and cocaine was often used in palliative care in it's early days, and with full knowledge of the 'dual effect' (symptom relief and hastening the end). It was called 'The Brompton Cocktail' after the Brompton Hospital which specialised in pulmonary disorders.

    • @drmoss_ca
      @drmoss_ca 2 года назад +12

      @Nicky L Given that he constantly smoked, certainly. He may have had other issues as well to make his lungs vulnerable (pulmonary fibrosis, TB) or other complications of smoking. Remember both his sons died of lung cancer. I note our host used the phrase 'distended jugular vein' - so he may have had right ventricular failure secondary to COPD ('cor pulmonale'). I don't condone what Dawson did, but it doesn't seem very surprising or remarkable at all; such decisions used to be commonly made and it was all done on the QT. Even today, we dress it up only a little, like asking the family about 'goals of care' on admission to a nursing home - the expected and approved answer is 'comfort' not 'longevity'. There's a hell of a fine line between 'keeping him comfortable' and polishing him off sometimes!
      No fine line here though: 3/4 grain of morphine is about 48mg. IM dose for analgesia for a heart attack or fractured femur would be 15mg, but the IV dose would be 2.5 - 5mg. That 48mg IV was a massive overdose.

    • @AnamCaraDeMexico
      @AnamCaraDeMexico 2 года назад +7

      @@drmoss_caBrompton Cocktail directly into the Juglar. Ooff thank you Christopher, very interesting

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +12

      Thank you, Christopher - that is very interesting indeed. There had indeed been rumours amongst his colleagues in the 1930s concerning Dawson. I have long observed that such matters often have a habit of becoming known long before they become fact. I am happy to see you refer to the principle of dual effect above - I have found it somewhat alarming to read comments on this video which come from people who claim to be, or to have been, nurses, asserting their right to intentionally end life. I have removed the most blatant of these claims and to others made clear that in the absence of the dual effect, this would constitute an unlawful killing.

    • @eileenmcchrystal8471
      @eileenmcchrystal8471 2 года назад +2

      Thanks, interesting information.

    • @trishhanson9492
      @trishhanson9492 2 года назад +1

      @Nicky L Probably yes. I do think they were all heavy cigarette smokers.

  • @latinaalma1947
    @latinaalma1947 Год назад +23

    This is such a grey area of judgment...My mate of 41 years became a RN at 50. He was head of an oncology floor at night. He often sat with patients when he could as they were dying if they had no family to give them what comfort he could...hearing is believed to be the last sense to go so he would talk soothingly with them and often held their hand as they passed away. His goal was to always keep them out of pain.
    He had an arrangement with with the two oncologists in town to give their patients enough to keep them out of pain or suffering at the end. He never gave them an intentional overdose but often it was a case of having to increase dosage to keep them out of pain. It depresses breathing...and yes it is impossible to ALWAYS know exactly where the line is...he had to use his professional judgment ...the drs wrote orders sometimes after the fact to cover him....and again he never intentionally overdosed anyone but there was often a point where it was impossible to KNOW where that line was.
    My mate turned 80 in August and suddenly came down with digestive problems and we tried getting a diagnosis as his health failed...he had many tests of all sorts then he could not eat the dr came to.our house...my mate refused to go to hospital in retrospect he seemed to know what was coming. He just slowly faded away. His mother had died similarly. While I worked hard to co trol my distress...the doctor tried saving him but it was not to be, he died peacefully in his sleep next to me of a myocardial infarct ie his heart just finally quit beating. He was the kindest gentlest BEST human being I have ever known and I was so so lucky to have him those 41 years.

  • @tonicarrier1371
    @tonicarrier1371 2 года назад +32

    Yet another wonderfully researched and written case, and as always, impeccably narrated........thank you Mark. 🙂

  • @conningdale8805
    @conningdale8805 2 года назад +27

    Interesting video. I was aware of Dawson's involvement in the death of George V, but didn't know he had been involved with the deaths of Princess Victoria or Queen Maud. Nor did I know of his friendship with Edward VIII. One has to wonder how many other people he had euthanized - ordinary people, now long forgotten.
    Thank you for this excellent, well researched video.

  • @anne321
    @anne321 2 года назад +15

    Fascinating. I knew nothing about this & I was enthralled to watch this video. Dawson was arrogant & obviously when he had decided to do something, he had no qualms. It was interesting to hear about George’s 2 siblings & young son also had Dawson as their doctor & died. Not only a regicide, but a serial killer too perhaps. Thank you Mark for this & all the other cases that you have so expertly investigated. In the few weeks since I discovered your channel, I have watch one a day with my morning coffee & I have found them all fascinating & full of well presented information.

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +2

      Ah that is nice - thank you, Anne. I think where Dawson is concerned, I have only touched the tip of the iceberg here. He was a strange man indeed!

  • @mistygroves3503
    @mistygroves3503 Год назад +13

    This video is very well done. I had no idea about this piece of history! Thank you.

  • @colinmaceke7474
    @colinmaceke7474 2 года назад +17

    Sometime in the 1920’s my father, a young draughtsman, won a competition to design a method of carrying the king to hospital which would free him of pain. Any movement caused great pain. The design, I believe, was a water bed suspended in a gimbal. He never knew if it were built.

  • @amymarez8120
    @amymarez8120 2 года назад +30

    A fascinating take I had not heard before. I was particularly intrigued when you mentioned he was also Prince John’s Dr. I always thought it was suspicious he died, especially after reading accounts that describe his disability as likely being autism and that doesn’t kill you. This dr sounds like a serial killer operating in the very highest rungs of society.

  • @kittybitts567
    @kittybitts567 2 года назад +15

    This is awful! So, this pitiable man died cursing his murderer with his last breath, without any prayers from a Priest or Minister or even his family. How devastating for him!

  • @DVPerry220
    @DVPerry220 10 месяцев назад +17

    This was murder. The King’s last words were “God damn you”, the words you would expect him to say when he figured out just what was being done to him. 😠

  • @fionahoey6922
    @fionahoey6922 2 года назад +18

    That was a history lesson they never gave us in school! A sad tale but brilliantly told.

  • @WildWestGal
    @WildWestGal 2 года назад +25

    Mark, this is a brilliant presentation! Dawson was a clear-cut psychopath. His display of narcissism and lack of empathy are textbook. Everything must refer to, and be about, them. They will spin every situation to look a though they are being magnanimous and helpful. They will do anything to attain and keep the top seat. They are incapable of remorse or the feeling of wrong-doing of any kind. That combination is the signature of a serial killer.
    How interesting it would have been to look through all his patient files because I'm quite certain the number of questionable deaths and unquestionable malpractice would be staggering.
    Thank you for this fascinating piece of hidden history!
    Happy holidays to you from Oregon ~ Danyel

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +5

      Thank you, Danyel - the same thing was on my mind during my research into this matter: if it is still possible, a comprehensive review of Dawson's cases would, I am persuaded, shed a great deal of light on a man who was regarded with deep suspicion in his own day, and yet was never really challenged. There are so many other aspects to Dawson's life - including his meeting Hitler along with Lloyd George in September 1936, his part in the plot to remove the PM Baldwin, and the part he played in the release from internment of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Fascist Union, in 1941. This latter event led to a series of questions being asked in parliament...

    • @windalfalatar333
      @windalfalatar333 2 года назад +3

      @@TheyGotAwayWithMurder He seems almost like a real life Prof. Moriarty. (I agree with the other comment, which is a reaction I had already upon watching your excellent video, that he seems to have been a hallmark psychopath.)

    • @windalfalatar333
      @windalfalatar333 2 года назад +2

      @@annamack5823 I think if they have the brains for it. My ex-wife was a psychopath but she wasn't clever enough to do a job like that. She did a bit of modelling (so she said) and hostess jobs (like trying to make people take up smoking in clubs, which I suppose could have been true and legal in parts of Latin America at the time). I think for male psychpaths, the medical profession is probably ideal, and any jobs with a vested, inherent authority, like policing or being a teacher or in management.

    • @Davidfooterman
      @Davidfooterman Год назад +1

      There is nothing worse than fame and fortune to degrade the quality of a physician, and this is spoken from first hand experience of what it is like working with these ‘medicopaths’, if an invented word might be accepted just this once.

    • @julielevinge266
      @julielevinge266 Год назад +1

      Wonder how many more in that position were clearly psychopathic?
      We’ve learnt the lesson from the old joke” what’s the difference between God & a Doctor = God doesn’t think he’s a Doctor.”
      Remember Shipman!!

  • @Ihatewater9000
    @Ihatewater9000 2 года назад +25

    This was really good! I had no idea Edward was such a horrible person, and that awful man that killed King George V! On to the next one, I’m hooked now! 🙂

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +3

      Thank you very much - glad you enjoyed it.

    • @anitasantos7198
      @anitasantos7198 2 года назад +1

      Poor queen Elizabeth , all she have to live , her uncle a killer her sister was just a dessaster, her children divorce and the world think that Charles and Cowmilla order the death of Princess Diana , and Andrew has being acuse of rape, and Harry marry to another Wally Simpson or worse than her.Thank's to our lord that Price Edward marry to a exelent wife and don't give the queen any problems. also she Prince William and his wife, the Cambrige are abbeautiful gift fron God to the queen , I hope that Harry and Mm stop trashing the queen and the real loyal royals the queen need the good members of her family by her side , May God keep the Markles away fron the real loyal royals. I like the queen a lot , I hope that she make sure that Charles and Cowmilla never step on throne , that was Princess Diana's place and the only one,s that belong to the throne next is the Cambrige they well love and respect by the worl .

  • @MPM6785ChitChat
    @MPM6785ChitChat Год назад +53

    My mother had lung cancer and given mere weeks to live.
    While in the care home she was given 250 mg of morphine every few hours - she was eating but would be sick so constantly nauseous and anorexic....
    Also she was hallucinating cartoon elephants etc.
    It was explained to me - by a functioning addicted friend, that if a person doesn't require a certain amount to suppress their physical pain that's when a person has hallucinations because the brain uses up the excess that way.
    Luckily my mother's were amusing to her rather than scary/ horrific hallucinations.
    When l queried the doctors , their response was that the amount of medication she was taking was Nothing compared to the amounts that other patients were being given.
    I replied well that no doubt keeps the patients bedridden, conveniently quiet and practically comatose and hastens death....
    I removed my mother that day and within 3 days l had lessened her medication to 5mg every few hours.
    She ate - no nausea or headaches from all the previous retching.
    Ticked off some bucket list desires and lived - survived for a further 9 months....
    Note, the physicians took umbridge to my questioning of their authority and wouldn't provide us with a wheelchair to take her out - so l found a mobile commode and unceremoniously removed her myself.

    • @Beegee1952
      @Beegee1952 Год назад +11

      Too many doctors have a god complex and don’t like to be overridden. We know our own bodies and those of our loved ones best. Good for you!

    • @stephaniegross6725
      @stephaniegross6725 Год назад +10

      I’m sorry for your loss. 💐
      I know your mother appreciated your care in her last days. May God bless you.

    • @tbastrikes7847
      @tbastrikes7847 Год назад +3

      I am a registered nurse that holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Morphine 250mg IV is a fatal dose. 15mg IV could kill a person. I think your dosage is inaccurate. Maybe it was 250 mcg.

    • @MPM6785ChitChat
      @MPM6785ChitChat Год назад +1

      @@tbastrikes7847 yes mcg thanks

    • @amandawright9073
      @amandawright9073 Год назад +1

      Wish i had done this, very well done.

  • @karinberryman2009
    @karinberryman2009 2 года назад +43

    As a nurse I’ve never seen a Dr inject any substance into a jugular vein, other than a doctor desperately giving Adrenaline in the case of cardiac arrest! That poor nurse must’ve been traumatised watching her beloved King murdered before her eyes!

    • @honey-feeney9800
      @honey-feeney9800 2 года назад +1

      The doctor used the jugular to get the medicine into the heart and up into the brain fast .

    • @marybeyer1496
      @marybeyer1496 2 года назад

      I was a CCU nurse. I agree with you. In our era, we can argue because we need to draw up the drugs. In this time, nurses were little more than the help. Doctors back in this day were barely educated more than the people who were surgeons and pulled teeth. It was obvious the King was dying, so they hastened it to make the newspapers of the day. There was no 24 hour news cycle. They were going for maximum exposure. Probably Meghan Markles antecedents.

  • @crayzeedayzee
    @crayzeedayzee 2 года назад +26

    Was always shocked of the sudden deaths of Queen Maud, her sister Victoria, and of course their brother King George V! Didn't know they all shared Sir Dr Death!

    • @marybusch6182
      @marybusch6182 2 года назад +1

      More onformation would be very interesting. Wonder how it coincides with their wills. After all, wills can be changed

  • @gingersnaptrack9337
    @gingersnaptrack9337 2 года назад +26

    I have a letter written by this king after being passed down from my WW1 soldier GG-Grandfather. The letter is thanking them. It must have meant a lot to my GG-Grandfather to have kept it safe until his own death. At least this king did not suffer and die in the horrific way his lookalike Russian Zsar cousin and his innocent young family did.

    • @z.weertje7209
      @z.weertje7209 Год назад

      The Zsar lost his life and family, sad but millions of people suffer worse and died.
      I feel more sympathie for the soldiers and citizens

  • @avondalemama470
    @avondalemama470 Год назад +25

    Oh my, it was a very good thing prince Edward abdicated. He, Wallis, and Dawson were not good people. Edward and Wallis have a lot in common with Harry and Meghan. So sad these people are not learning from the past. They will reap what they sow.

    • @Alpha-Andromeda
      @Alpha-Andromeda Год назад +7

      It is very strange and true. Except Harry seemed to like being a military Royal and enjoyed his family. Edward was a downright good for nothing except partying.
      If you ever read the letters between Wallis and Edward you’ll find that he coerced her to do so in order to be able to abdicate. “If you leave me I will commit suicide”. Wallis of course knew Edward was like a child and said so many times. It’s as if she got entangled in his web. But here now it’s the opposite, it’s Megan who has entangled Harry in her victim web. And he will suffer from cutting ties to homeland, family, and identity.
      Both American divorcees, neither of them respectable. What are the chances? It’s actually called Morphic Resonance.
      It’s a biological theme of how we repeat family historical things. Because it’s not about DNA per se. Listen to Rupert Sheldrake speak here on RUclips. He must be in his 70’s now. Great thinker, Cambridge scholar.
      Beautiful voice to listen to as well.

    • @stephenellis2866
      @stephenellis2866 Год назад

      I agree, this story makes you think so

  • @lyallfurphy
    @lyallfurphy 2 года назад +20

    The algorithm blessed me with this video. It was intriguing and I enjoyed the style of your prose and narration.

  • @theonlymeaning
    @theonlymeaning 2 года назад +18

    This is beautifully produced and not unlike a classic dramatic radio reading by the BBC .
    Nothing on the planet can compare to the English language when spoken clearly by an educated Englishman or Englishwoman.

    • @lizh1988
      @lizh1988 2 года назад +1

      Or even uneducated. I've heard lots of Brits talk.

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +1

      Thank you very much - it is much appreciated!

  • @aaronhughes2951
    @aaronhughes2951 2 года назад +19

    My great great grandad was King George’s body guard, no one knows or talks about him as no one knows about him !

  • @gregkiely4839
    @gregkiely4839 2 года назад +15

    Firstly, this narration is top shelf, riveting in fact, a type of voice pattern that makes one listen and pay attention.
    Secondly, thank you very much for this history lesson.
    Personally, I believe the correct choice "Bertie" King George VI, followed by one of the most remarkable persons in the last 100 years. Long live our Queen.

  • @madonnaujmajuridze6466
    @madonnaujmajuridze6466 2 года назад +24

    Another brilliant and extraordinary presentation of a very intriguing situation. I would like to point out that I was particularly interested in this mysterious story of the assassination, as the daughter-in law of King George V, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, later Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent , was close to my grandmother's family, Mark! This is amazingly detailed, well narrated, and so far brilliantly accurate!!! You did a really great job with this! I am so very thrilled. Mark, you are a series documentarian par excellent and your narrative delivery has something for every age group. As always, your brilliant documentaries have the ability to provide a rare insight into the hidden world. Our natural curiosity as human beings draws us to these documentaries and can allow a glimpse behind the veil. As always, this documentary is also distinguished by its originality. Narration in your crime documentary plays with a range of different perspectives that provide information at specific times in order to keep the viewer on their toes and intrigued by the mystery of the suspect-protagonist.The increased suspicion encourages the viewer to continue and decipher the suspect-protagonist, driving the story around him. I loved your take on Edward. The most courageous act!
    I liked your bravery! So much research went into creating this video. I found myself pausing the video to read additional content into the main subject or people or situations you mentioned. I am fascinated . It is written beautifully and captivating from start to finish, Mark! This documentary is nothing short of professional: your script, editing, sketches, music and mesmerizing narration. So many great documentaries you have made, but I think this is a favourite of mine. :) Thanks for sharing!

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +6

      Thank you very much indeed, Madonna! It is a wonderful thing to receive such approval - especially as I had some misgivings about the documentary right up until the last moment. It is certainly the best I could do with the subject and felt it was a strange oversight that the link had not been made between George's death, Dawson's admission that he killed him on the evening of 20th January, and the latter's close friendship with Edward Prince of Wales: the knowledge that Dawson's act was certainly one of murder, and the intimation that either Queen Mary or Prince Edward had expressed a desire for the King's life not to be "prolonged unnecessarily," seemed to place the matter squarely in the province of sufficient evidence to mount a prosecution!

    • @madonnaujmajuridze6466
      @madonnaujmajuridze6466 2 года назад +1

      @@TheyGotAwayWithMurder My pleasure, Mark! I must add, this is another masterpiece of yours and its merits are beyond question. Judging you by this masterpiece of documentary, you deserve much more praise not only as a documentarian, but also as a writer, thinker, analyst and artist.

  • @janewells7208
    @janewells7208 2 года назад +15

    Back then you didn’t question a doctor. “Hugely ambitious man”, wow.

    • @ericwortman3180
      @ericwortman3180 2 года назад +2

      Many doctors still do not like questions and inquisitive patients.

  • @TinekeWilliams
    @TinekeWilliams 2 года назад +24

    My grandmother was dying of cancer. I adored her even though she was strict and sometimes I got hit over the head if I was in the wrong place. Stayed with her under her bed and held her hand while the doctor came and I heard him ask if she had enough. She answered yes and gave her an injection. She died. Held her hand until she did. Had to hide again under the bed until an Aunty looking after her came up to tend to her. As she saw Oma was dead she ran screaming down the stairs, enough time to get my 8 year old ass to the toilet. Phew! But even though now I am old and surpassed her age I think about her often.

    • @ReneeandJimmyG
      @ReneeandJimmyG 2 года назад +1

      Holy moly!

    • @raaf4678
      @raaf4678 2 года назад +1

      Good doctor!

    • @lisamcbride8921
      @lisamcbride8921 2 года назад +2

      Oma? Are you of German heritage? My mother asked that my son call her Omi. Her parents were from Germany

    • @martinlangford5967
      @martinlangford5967 2 года назад +1

      @@lisamcbride8921 Maybe Dutch.

    • @setnaffa
      @setnaffa 2 года назад +4

      voluntary euthanasia is different... still kinda wrong; but not the murder described in the video.

  • @HepCatJack
    @HepCatJack 11 месяцев назад +20

    Nurses that are "angels of death" are known to place patients in medical distress in order to rescue them and gain the admiration of their medical peers. If they fail in their rescue, they get the sympathies of their colleagues for their heroic effort. It's quite possible that his doctor may have had a hand in George V's health problems. They can often operate for years before they are caught.
    I remember seeing a TV program in the 1980's that said Edward had betrayed Belgium military positions to the Germans in the early days of the war. I suppose it's possible they used each other to further their ambitions.

  • @dilly1863
    @dilly1863 2 года назад +18

    When I was growing up in England, when doctors had their own surgeries, had their own back room where they prepared medicine for distribution, made house calls, and performed minor surgery, helping those with terminal illnesses to transit from this earthly plane to the next, was generally known and accepted. Babies born with believed malformations were also prevented from living. Archaic perhaps, but with poverty and overcrowded families, it was gratefully accepted. Today, I wait in cleanly spacious hospitals or waiting rooms for doctors who come late, charge huge fees, and care little for my family situation. Yes medicine has changed for the better, but have we lost something as well?

    • @markmaki4460
      @markmaki4460 2 года назад +1

      Medicine has not at all changed for the better. That is unless it is better to die later as a dehumanized shell rather than earlier. All flesh comes to the same material end; when it happens to reach that end is of no lasting consequence. How it reaches that end and what state of actual (as opposed to presumptive) dignity it retains at that hour is of eternal consequence.

    • @smallfeet4581
      @smallfeet4581 2 года назад +2

      @@markmaki4460 i will disagree , lots have went on to live long and productive lives , there isa difference in being kept alive with no quality of life to functioning as a normal person , more and more are requesting dnr these days if they become unwell and its in talks for euthanasia without having to go to switzerland , what maureen issaying is doctors knew patients more personally and would do house calls but started saying they can see more patients if they came to the surgery (spreading whatever they had to others) ,

    • @joywalker4918
      @joywalker4918 2 года назад +1

      No people like me are alive because Dr's changed no matter if someone is disabled or not they have a right to live my family is poor and I'm disabled but I'm happy you don't kill disabled babies just because it's hard that's horrible..

    • @smallfeet4581
      @smallfeet4581 2 года назад

      @@joywalker4918 yes you may be right but in history there was no health care , it is not doctors that have changed its money and some of that comes from rich people and charities etc , in uk its also nhs plus there were no disability aides and care services like there are now to help out parents , a prog that showed a disabled child in usa where a charity built a ramp for the child i asked why the govt didnt do this (i think the child was looked after by his grndmother ), i was told the govt dont do this its up to the parents family or guardian , in uk there are centres that take children in like a school with the right facilities for them , without these parents would have a very tough life esp if poor

    • @jillybe1873
      @jillybe1873 2 года назад +2

      I would not like to be kept alive when natural death comes, and have told my family. I'd like to sneak off into a forest, but I like the morphine solution. We force people to live on though nothing works for them anymore. I sat for 3 years at my mum's bedside while the poor thing withered away, oblivious and in pain.

  • @TrappedQue
    @TrappedQue Год назад +24

    Sounds like Dawson was a serial killer masked as a doctor.

  • @MelanieMaguire
    @MelanieMaguire 2 года назад +14

    Wow! I had no idea. They kept this quiet - under the radar. I have no doubt that Edward requested (in a subtle way) that his father shouldn't recover, he wanted to be King to marry Mrs. Simpson. There've been lots of sympathetic "love story" type documentaries/films about Edward & Wallis, but in reality they were a couple of Nazis. I'm sure that Edward had no scruples at all about hastening his father's death. Dawson was the worst kind of doctor with a God complex. Disgusting. Thanks very much for another brilliant and shocking episode and all your hard work. :)
    PS. Brilliant illustrations, as per usual - full of drama!

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +4

      Many thanks, Mel - I am glad you liked it! I have been wrestling with this one for some weeks, as you know. I could find very little positive to say about Edward or Wallis, I'm afraid. There were a great many things which I was obliged to leave out of the case because they are just too bad for our modern sensibilities - but the antipathy both had against other racial types was shocking even for the time...

    • @donaenoble7835
      @donaenoble7835 2 года назад

      What is frightening is how can he get away with this afterwards? How could he dare it even with such a powerful family!? Dear me, even afterwards and with É, being suggested to be involved, no longer in the scene? The mind boggles!!! Raises more questions, Moreso as allegedly other siblings met a similar end? Why?

  • @jimschannel2220
    @jimschannel2220 Месяц назад +5

    As a native of England I will never forgive this monarchy for coming over here in 1066, killing our beloved King Harold and stealing everything.

  • @charlottereitberger6253
    @charlottereitberger6253 2 года назад +13

    I hit that like button before I even watch 🇺🇸❤️I have never been disappointed ! Absolutely incredibly talented artist and storyteller. This brightens my afternoon on the West Coast USA. Thanks for these great posts !

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +1

      Thank you Charlotte - that's very nice to hear!

    • @charlottereitberger6253
      @charlottereitberger6253 2 года назад +1

      @@TheyGotAwayWithMurder absolutely! Off for a swim it’s 9 am here . Enjoy your afternoon

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +1

      @@charlottereitberger6253 On a grey day here in the UK I am envious indeed! Enjoy your swim!

    • @charlottereitberger6253
      @charlottereitberger6253 2 года назад +1

      @@TheyGotAwayWithMurder indoor pool. Don’t get too envious 🇺🇸❤️

  • @TheArnaa
    @TheArnaa 2 года назад +22

    My elderly aunt always said Edward would have been a disaster as king whenever she talked about the abdication.

    • @questioneverything-rf3yf
      @questioneverything-rf3yf 2 года назад +2

      OMG what a fascinating experience it would have been to sit and pick her brain a bit!!

    • @TheArnaa
      @TheArnaa 2 года назад +2

      @@questioneverything-rf3yf Yep. She was born in 1903, so saw some interesting times.

  • @thylacinenv
    @thylacinenv 2 года назад +15

    An outstanding presentation.

  • @erichstocker8358
    @erichstocker8358 2 года назад +35

    Well written, well presented, well reasoned and extremely well narrated. There seems little doubt that Edward had a say in his father's death. He was a self-centered, self-indulgent royal fascist whose sense of self was wrapped up in and expressed by Nazi myth and philosophy. Whatever one may think now, Great Britain got a more appropriate head of state in George VI and his daughter -- Queen Elizabeth.

    • @PeriLyons123
      @PeriLyons123 2 года назад

      Exactly! Edward was a complete ninny. Also, one of his reasons for loving Wallis, was that she was just fine, with his predilection for teenage boys. (This is from an absolutely impeccable source.)

  • @luckyfredneck
    @luckyfredneck 2 года назад +33

    It sounds like the IRISH nurse, Catherine Black was being set up for "a Patsy". Glad she refused!

  • @Pippins666
    @Pippins666 Год назад +18

    Until quite recently, it was common for doctors and GPs to offer to assist patients over the last few days or hours by offering extra morphine. It had the effect of easing the pain and distress of both the patients and their loved ones, and did also bring on a peaceful death earlier. My own mother was offered it in her final days of lung cancer. Nowadays doctors are worried about religious nutters accusing them of murder, and so they would rather see patients suffer than be eased out. We treat dying patients worse than we treat dying pets - and if we refused to ease a beloved dying pet over the threshold and instead continuing its suffering we could be prosecuted for animal cruelty

    • @Laura-kl7vi
      @Laura-kl7vi Год назад +1

      He wasn't offered, sounds like. It was, instead, decided by the doctor and inflicted upon him.

    • @Pippins666
      @Pippins666 Год назад

      @@Laura-kl7vi so his death was expedited by a few days and his suffering ceased instantly. If you treated a dying dog with that level of cruelty you would be prosecuted, and rightly so

    • @janebaker966
      @janebaker966 Год назад +1

      But it doesn't sound as though King George V wanted to choose this option. And our elderly relatives and parents are not pets to be put down when they get inconvenient.

    • @janebaker966
      @janebaker966 Год назад +1

      ​@@charliesmith_well don't enforce YOUR CHOICE on ME.

    • @janebaker966
      @janebaker966 Год назад

      ​@@Pippins666he wasn't a dog. He was a human being.

  • @irena4545
    @irena4545 2 года назад +159

    Something I must protest: the Tzar's family were not executed, they were murdered. And the bolsheviks got away with it...

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +34

      Thank you for pointing this out - it is always a little difficult to distinguish between "execution" and "murder" because the two are not mutually exclusive terms. The act of the Soviet in ordering the execution was reprehensible in every sense. I believe it was both an execution in the sense that it was carried out with dubious State authority, but in also every sense I can comprehend, it was murder.

    • @irena4545
      @irena4545 2 года назад +17

      @@TheyGotAwayWithMurder The case might be made against the Tzar, as he was ultimately responsible for many of the woes of the Russian people (though due to ineptitude, rather than malice), perhaps even against his wife as a potential instigator. Might. Their children, though, were guilty of no other crime than being born to the wrong parents and their deaths had nothing to do with any form of justice whatsoever.
      - But this is a moot point, anyway, as the reason why murdering the Romanovs was authorized was the fear that they might be liberated. So it was an execution-style murder.

    • @AnamCaraDeMexico
      @AnamCaraDeMexico 2 года назад +10

      @@irena4545 with respect, he wasn't called BLOODY NICHOLAS for naught. Rabid anti semit whose absolute monanarchist world view was resposible for his family tragic destruction. Murder or execution, history is written by the Victors. Look into the Protocols of Zion, anti semitic world domination propaganda Nicholas and his ministers flogged to offset their Progroms. You will find the origins of the Holocaust in his charming pamphlet.

    • @irena4545
      @irena4545 2 года назад +13

      @@AnamCaraDeMexico Thank you for the information, I wasn't aware of his antisemitism, though I am hardly surprised as it was fairly common at the time. However, that is not what he was killed for, and brutal as this may sound, the communists hardly gave a damn about the fate of Jews. He dragged Russia into wars that it was sorely unequipped for, and if I'm not mistaken, that "Bloody" nickname relates to the events of the Bloody Sunday and the revolution of 1905. He was a fool and completely out of his depth in the position that he was holding, and disregarded the human losses and suffering. Yet, his death was not ruled in any trial, or anything even distantly resembling any course of justice, merely an order was issued by those who had the power to make others follow, no better than what he had done himself.

    • @wendys390
      @wendys390 2 года назад +3

      @@irena4545 well said. I see it that way also.

  • @leno4920
    @leno4920 2 года назад +14

    A superbly written & eloquently presented perspective on the suspicious circumstances of King George's death. Gripping stuff indeed.

  • @kathrynmast916
    @kathrynmast916 2 года назад +15

    Wow! You have done it again. You have presented a thoughtful and thorough murder case with in-depth research. The other starling fact is the number royals that died under his care and under questionable circumstances. As the poet, James Whitcomb Riley, once said, “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.” I’m thinking that the good Doctor was a BIG OLD DUCK!

    • @TheyGotAwayWithMurder
      @TheyGotAwayWithMurder  2 года назад +2

      Thank you very much Kathryn - I am so glad you liked it. I have never heard those words of James W Riley, but I love them - in the context of True Crime it could almost be my motto. So many enthusiasts for the genre (and books) try to spend their time trying to prove the duck was in fact a pigeon! I shall surely remember that phrase!

    • @letitiadungavel2083
      @letitiadungavel2083 2 года назад

      @@TheyGotAwayWithMurder but

  • @sandramillett8267
    @sandramillett8267 2 года назад +13

    Thanks for letting the true story come out.
    Interesting tale.

  • @Uzbug
    @Uzbug 2 года назад +15

    Really enjoyed this. Highlights the danger of euthanasia and how it can be misused. Power corrupts indeed.

  • @SaraLaRose
    @SaraLaRose Год назад +10

    Very well written and a beautiful voice and erudition. Thank you

  • @karinberryman2009
    @karinberryman2009 2 года назад +22

    I’d like to know how Dawson got away with likely malpractice in Queen Maud’s premature death. She was Norway’s Queen after all.

  • @petergibson2318
    @petergibson2318 2 года назад +28

    Newspaper Barons still rule what the British public are allowed to know.
    Some things never change.
    Greetings from Ireland.

    • @petergibson2318
      @petergibson2318 2 года назад +6

      P.S. If the Irish nurse Catherine Black did as she was told (murder) she would have been hanged.
      "Innocent until proven Irish."
      Greetings from Ireland.

    • @gommechops
      @gommechops 2 года назад +7

      They control what we are all allowed to know now, it is global.

    • @valeriecarlin1524
      @valeriecarlin1524 2 года назад

      @@gommechops tbf the Itish press is much better

  • @kudu42
    @kudu42 2 года назад +21

    What a fascinating and gob-smacking story - well done you for putting it together so succinctly and persuasively. It has always seemed odd that Wallis Simpson was so detested by the royal family, when apparently her only crime was being divorced. As for the doctor! If we did not have examples like Harold Shipman to give credence, it could have been dismissed as whimsey. You take my breath away with this one!!!

  • @PoopSnoot
    @PoopSnoot 2 года назад +11

    True Crime stories narrated in your calm & distinguished voice, your interesting Artwork & photographs- Thank You So Very Much for your research & time MJM 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @ashtree8898
    @ashtree8898 2 года назад +16

    Thank you very much, Mr. Maguire, for explaining that Dr. Dawson did indeed live in the village of Penn in Buckinghamshire. Such thorough research you do to even know the name of his house. We know the road the house is on. I have told my mother, aged 101, about your video and she says "I remember hearing on the BBC Home Service Freddie Grisewood in solemn tones announcing that the King's life was drawing peacefully to its close. We all imagined pneumonia relentlessly running its course. That is what we thought we knew." She is shocked to hear the truth but glad to no longer be deceived. Thank you again.

  • @SeaBreeze2247
    @SeaBreeze2247 2 года назад +15

    Such a well-told, fascinating story about the evil behind the lust for power and status. So glad I saw this.

  • @williammorris584
    @williammorris584 Год назад +15

    My observation from long experience is that VIP patients get the most attention and the worst care, especially in hospital. The case here is one of malice, but goes along with my experience that such patients are subject to many decisions based on factors unrelated to medical judgement.

  • @user-zu4cc6pb9x
    @user-zu4cc6pb9x Год назад +13

    It s amazing that Wallis Simpson didn't have an accident !

  • @nickjung7394
    @nickjung7394 2 года назад +16

    I would like to know what secrets the Queen Mother sat on over the years! I wonder what happened to her diaries.

  • @VFT1729
    @VFT1729 9 месяцев назад +15

    The Czar and his family were brutally murdered not executed. They were imprisoned and then murdered and it was no firing squad either.

  • @millymac7796
    @millymac7796 Год назад +14

    A banned song from 1929, "Feminine Men and Masculine Women", suggested Edward's perversions were gossiped about just as much by the working class. The song makes fun of the Prince of Wales and asks, " Do we have a Princess or a Prince?".

  • @Oioisaviloy
    @Oioisaviloy 2 года назад +9

    I could listen to this narrator all day long.

  • @rogermowat401
    @rogermowat401 2 года назад +13

    What a wonderful narration of history and it’s twists and turns. Very informative and balanced and throws light on the huge power struggles that occur in Royal circles and the day to day issues they face even up to the present day.

  • @UATU.
    @UATU. 2 года назад +14

    If I am ever on my deathbed in pain, I hope a compassionate doctor will ease me out, but certainly not without consulting my family first. Dr. Dawson seems supremely arrogant and might as well have been putting down an old dog at his own convenience.

  • @lindawhite8272
    @lindawhite8272 2 года назад +14

    This video about King George the V of England was extremely well done. I 'd like to see more of the director and narrator's work! *****

  • @Snoopy-JoeCool
    @Snoopy-JoeCool 2 года назад +25

    I thoroughly enjoyed this fascinating investigative documentary. The fact that there is no distracting atmospheric music is highly commendable. I cringe when I tap an historical documentary on RUclips and suddenly irritating music scoring overwhelms the entire video. Just the facts and archival photos or film footage goes very far imo.

  • @christinehall6441
    @christinehall6441 2 года назад +19

    Years ago it was common practice to give extra morphine to dying elderly patients to ease suffering in their last hours if they were struggling to breath or in distress. Families were usually desperate to ease their loved ones discomfort rather than watch them suffocate from lung congestion. Hardly murder, more like mercy under those circumstances surely.

    • @roba4295
      @roba4295 2 года назад +2

      Ignoring Queen Maude, Princess Victoria, the general misbehaving of the Royals and those around them?
      If I ever ended up in front of a jury, I would want 12 lovely souls just like you, on the bench.

    • @jpc443
      @jpc443 2 года назад +2

      I fear that you may have missed the point. The easing of suffering was mearly a premise.

  • @lisaalane7694
    @lisaalane7694 2 года назад +19

    I've already commented but today Lady Collin Campbell came out in support of the content of this video. I comment again in support of this creators obvious attempt in his videos to be historically accurate.

  • @donnaeturner
    @donnaeturner 2 года назад +18

    Psychopathic doctors, oh my. How timely a tale!

  • @peepindis
    @peepindis Год назад +11

    You've made a fresh and compelling case and your voice is very pleasant to listen to.

  • @wandakowalski7063
    @wandakowalski7063 2 года назад +17

    Very much enjoyed this video. Beautifully narrated and well researched. Thank you. Love to hear your thoughts on Andrew…

  • @littlebrookreader949
    @littlebrookreader949 2 года назад +15

    Imagine the death of the murderous doctor. The dying king’s last words must have been heavier than lead. “God damn you.” Ouch. That the nurse refused to participate in the murder is to her praise.

    • @kl8132
      @kl8132 2 года назад +5

      That's to imply that the doctor cared what the king thought which he obviously didn't. He saw it as his right as a perfect doctor, and his duty to protect the Monarchy. Very warped perspective

  • @rogerwright9096
    @rogerwright9096 2 года назад +17

    PEOPLE MUST REMEMBER, BEING RICH AND/OR ROYAL DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU ARE " BETTER " THAN EVERYONE ELSE, IT JUST MEANS THET YOU'RE " BETTER OFF " THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON .

    • @angr3819
      @angr3819 2 года назад +2

      True but you don't need to shout. It puts people off reading as our eyes are more adjusted to reading lower case.

    • @spmoran4703
      @spmoran4703 2 года назад +2

      And much better off than the poor.

  • @Boudica_Boo_Keltoi
    @Boudica_Boo_Keltoi Год назад +11

    At least old George had a huge rush as he went. Who'd have thought they knew about speedballs back then?😂

    • @cattymajiv
      @cattymajiv Год назад +1

      Right! But even better to be like Aldous Huxley, who asked his wife Laura to give him LSD. She complied.

    • @donnaeve3939
      @donnaeve3939 Год назад +1

      😂

    • @janb3641
      @janb3641 Год назад

      The Victorian’s new about drugs, they were using natural meds, far less cancers, autism eczema and asthma…

  • @___LC___
    @___LC___ 2 года назад +16

    When I reach the last of my days, I hope for my way out to be through a door made of morphine.

    • @___LC___
      @___LC___ 2 года назад +3

      @@flashgordon6670 I’ve seen enough drawn out death, where people beg for morphine, that I know I don’t want that. I am not saying I want to be murdered like King George, but I’d like a peaceful end devoid of all my earthly pain.

    • @tillybug_pug4180
      @tillybug_pug4180 2 года назад +1

      I agree. Having a drawn-out, painful death isn’t “glorious” or “noble”. My family doesn’t need to suffer by watching me struggle, that’s not glorious. It’s cruel. I’d rather go quietly in my sleep, so my loved ones have a peaceful last memory of me. There’s already enough needless suffering in life.

  • @charlotteantiquepowerengin6277
    @charlotteantiquepowerengin6277 2 года назад +12

    Well written and read. Fascinating imagery. Ordinarily, I gaze down upon those interested in monarchs from the smug heights of American poverty. However, in your telling, this family drama seems to have taken place in a strange suspension of time, locked between the crushing, sepia weight of Victorian empire and the stark, greyscale modernity which shattered it. Wonderful job, Sir. I look forward to more.

    • @rosemaryallen2128
      @rosemaryallen2128 2 года назад

      Beautiful writing! A rare and welcome eventuality on RUclips.

  • @geraldinegonsalvez5804
    @geraldinegonsalvez5804 2 года назад +20

    It is good to know that King George's wish and desire that his grandaugher Lillibet succeed his throne eventually came to be. 💖🙏

    • @bobthompson4133
      @bobthompson4133 2 года назад

      No king wants a queen to sit on the throne.

  • @geraldinegonsalvez5804
    @geraldinegonsalvez5804 2 года назад +9

    A sad happenstance indeed. God rest the soul of the deceased King George V ✝️ in eternal peace and may perpetual light shine upon him. Thank you for this sharing. 🙏

  • @MsDormy
    @MsDormy 2 года назад +21

    If the old man was well enough to curse his medics, he was well enough to live and fight off the infection. My dad suffered from Bronchitis on and off for at least 20 years before he passed away at 95. It was murder.

  • @lynnrobinson8885
    @lynnrobinson8885 2 года назад +15

    I returned to this one a second time, having been so interested. It is a powerful and very well-reasoned presentation and well researched on your part. I really enjoyed this! Have you collected some of these in book form yourself? I hope to read all the cases you have kindly made available on line. I like that you have done the narration, and with a very lovely voice, as you understand well the characters from your research. I think you make your case very well. Thank you so very much!

  • @simonbertioli4696
    @simonbertioli4696 2 года назад +19

    Beautifully narrated.
    Very interesting.
    When it comes to Edward...
    reminds me of another person...in the news at present..

  • @miles-thesleeper-monroe8466
    @miles-thesleeper-monroe8466 3 месяца назад +5

    Hi Mark, I've congratulated and thanked you for this wonderfully researched and told story in another comment. It's really got me thinking. Back then the world was reevaluating itself between two competing ideologies, one of which was our lovely traditional monarchist capitalist comfort zone and revolution could happen any time anywhere. Hitler seized fascist power in 1933 with a mission to defeat socialism. The British elites were equally terrified of the revolutionary wave. There was a lot of political activity between Hitlers Germany from 1933 and the British establishment right up to we all know where. Activities of key players on both sides in this arena in 1935 will reveal the motive of this murder plot. Purely political. The anti Hitler german ambassador to Britain had a "heart attack" whilst dressing one morning soon to be replaced by Von Ribbentrop as planned in 1935 . He was Hitlers bag man who was sleeping with the new King's wife making the term cuckold diplomatic as well as marital. Thank god for Churchill, for all his faults, we reasserted Britishness through parliament and democracy and stood against fascism

  • @hamc861
    @hamc861 Год назад +25

    Be as evil as you want.... One day you will answer to a higher power

    • @acw7120
      @acw7120 Год назад

      Yes so true. Forever as well.

  • @janb3641
    @janb3641 Год назад +15

    It does still happen today, during the period of lock down Hancock purchased supplies of midazolan from France, this was given to end the lives of many and mixed with morphine, (midazolan Matt earned this title)😢 on his say he ended many lives while we were unable to visit our elderly and oversee the drugs administered… No autopsies we’re performed…sick…

  • @catrionamacfarlane4949
    @catrionamacfarlane4949 2 года назад +14

    WOW...best documentary I've heard in a long time....and how history is repeating itself at this moment in time. H and M.