The Missing Witness? George V, Competence, Compellability and the Criminal Libel Trial of Edward Frederick Mylius.
A criminal libel trial in 1911 set the monarch against one of his subjects. Edward Mylius repeated a rumour that accused King George V of marrying Queen Mary when – secretly – the King had previously married someone else and had three children. The criminal charge, the process used to bring the issu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Legal History Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 209 - 240 |
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Aug2012
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