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Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 1

His Majesty the King ascended the throne on May 6, 1910, so that he lias reigned for more than fifteen years—the most memorable in the history of the Kingdom nnd “the Empire. In these days at sixty a man is regarded as in middle age, and the King comes of long-lived stock. George I. was eighty when he died, George 11. was seventy-seven, George 111. was eightyone. George IV. died at the age of sixty-eight, but William IV. lived until seventy-two. Queen Victoria exceeded George ITT.’s reign in length, and equalled him in age. Edward VII. was in his sixty-ninth year when ho died. Queen Alexandra will he eighty-one next December. The .average age of the seven Sovereigns who have preceded King George V. on the throne i jst ovac aoventi’-iivfi .jearg* , J