Sorry for late reply. As described in the article, his attending doctor gave him a lethal injection of drugs to speed up his death so that it would appear in the morning newspapers, as opposed to the evening newspapers, so that it would get the coverage they wanted. And something about the date, too, I think, but I can't remember. It's on record that his doctor euthanized him, though, for timing purposes, and that was hushed up.
They say she died a few years ago. The woman playing her looked nothing like her
How did they kill George V?
injection into the jugular of morphine and coke.
A Brompton Cocktail then. Morphine, cocaine, chloroform, amphetamine and tincture of cannabis.
Sorry for late reply. As described in the article, his attending doctor gave him a lethal injection of drugs to speed up his death so that it would appear in the morning newspapers, as opposed to the evening newspapers, so that it would get the coverage they wanted. And something about the date, too, I think, but I can't remember. It's on record that his doctor euthanized him, though, for timing purposes, and that was hushed up.