George V’s death...

To The Guardian

If, as you suggest, in 1936 King George V’s doctor, Lord Dawson, knowingly administered a lethal dose of morphine and cocaine “in order to ease the monarch’s suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of The Times, which rolled at midnight”, why was he not charged with regicide? Or, by any chance, is there one law for the rich and another for the poor? Dr Simon Gibbs, Hutton Rudby, North Yorkshire