who was king george v father?
Edward VII
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 The King was related by marriage to the rulers of Great Britain , Russia and Prussia , maintaining a particularly strong attachment to the Prince and Princess of Wales , who visited Athens in 1869 . Their visit occurred despite continued lawlessness which culminated in the kidnap of a party of British and Italian tourists , including Lord and Lady Muncaster . Two female hostages , a child and Lord Muncaster were released , but four of the others : British diplomat E. H. C. Herbert ( the first cousin of Lord Carnarvon ) , Frederick Vyner ( the brother @-@ in @-@ law of Lord Ripon , Lord President of the Council ) , Italian diplomat Count Boyl di Putifigari , and Mr. Lloyd ( an engineer ) were murdered . George 's relationships with other ruling houses assisted him and his small country but also often put them at the center of national political struggles in Europe . 

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 King George III - King of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , 1760 – 1820 

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 George VI was born at York Cottage , on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk , during the reign of his great @-@ grandmother Queen Victoria . His father was Prince George , Duke of York ( later King George V ) , the second and eldest @-@ surviving son of the Prince and Princess of Wales ( later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra ) . His mother was the Duchess of York ( later Queen Mary ) , the eldest child and only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Teck . 

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 George 's second cousin once removed , Queen Anne , ascended the thrones of England , Scotland and Ireland in 1702 . She had no surviving children , and by the Act of Settlement 1701 the English Parliament designated Anne 's closest Protestant blood relations , George 's grandmother Sophia and her descendants , as Anne 's heirs in England and Ireland . Consequently , after his grandmother and father , George was third in line to succeed Anne in two of her three realms . He was naturalized as an English subject in 1705 by the Sophia Naturalization Act , and in 1706 he was made a Knight of the Garter and created Duke and Marquess of Cambridge , Earl of Milford Haven , Viscount Northallerton and Baron Tewkesbury in the Peerage of England . England and Scotland united in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain , and jointly accepted the succession as laid down by the English Act of Settlement . 

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 George , in his accession speech to Parliament , proclaimed : " Born and educated in this country , I glory in the name of Britain " . He inserted this phrase into the speech , written by Lord Hardwicke , in order to demonstrate his desire to distance himself from his German forebears , who were perceived as caring more for Hanover than for Britain . 
