George V was king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1910 to 1936. George V's reign began amid the continuing constitutional crisis over the House of Lords, which refused to pass a Parliament Bill limiting its powers. After the Liberal government obtained the King's promise to create sufficient peers to overcome Conservative opposition in the Lords the Parliament Bill was passed by the Lords in 1911 without a mass creation of peers. George V visited India in 1911, the only King-Emperor to do so. During the Great War the King made over 450 visits to troops and over 300 visits to hospitals visiting wounded servicemen, he pressed for proper treatment of German prisoners-of-war and he pressed also for more humane treatment of conscientious objectors. In 1917 anti-German feeling led him to adopt the family name of Windsor (after the Castle of the same name). Research George V
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