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3 unusual facts about Edward Mylius


Edward Mylius

Sir Richard David Muir, prosecuting, showed that the claims about the King were a complete fiction.

The King, with the advice of home secretary Winston Churchill, issued proceedings against Mylius for criminal libel and said he was prepared to go into the box to disprove the allegations.

Mylius alleged in a Paris-based Republican paper The Liberator in 1910 that George V had been already married to Mary, the daughter of a British Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, while serving in Malta as a young man.



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