The notes revealed that his final words were, in fact, “God damn you”. But a grave secret was revealed in Lord Dawson’s notes: the fact that King George V was euthanised with his physician ...

The Bank of England, the U.K.’s central bank, said that once the currency featuring the king is released, it will circulate alongside bank notes with the queen’s portrait.

There was one exception: Edward VIII, who was king for less than one year in 1936, faced to the left because that is what he preferred, even though the monarch before him, George V, also looked left.