On 14/03/14 08:29, Charles Ellson wrote:
it has been alleged that George V was helped on his way
with morphine and cocaine.

As are lots of people - well, with morphine anyway - and often by
doctors who would profess opposition to assisted dying. The peculiar
claim about George V was that his doctors bumped him off a wee bit early
so that his death would appear first in the morning papers, which were
more prestigious than the evening ones.

Bugger Bognor.

Ian