The Telegraph reports that King George V ‘demanded Britain enter the First World War’ during a meeting with the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, on 2nd August 1914.
It says the conversation at Buckingham Palace is revealed in a note unearthed among family papers by Sir Edward’s great-great-nephew.
The meeting happened before Germany’s invasion of neutral Belgium which brought Britain into the war on 4th August.
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Date of article publication: July 26th 2014
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Posted by: Peter Alhadeff, Centenary News