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"cruel tyrant "
Jingoistic, outdated crap.
He was described (at worst), as bombastic and impious and was noted as a poor wartime leader, but that was about it - (after all, - he was the grandchild of her Maj, Vickie (gawd bless her).
On the other hand, our ally, King Leopold II of the (Gallant Little) Belgians, was renowned for cutting the hands off Congolese plantation workers if they didn't meet their rubber quotas, and eventually managed to oversee the massacre of ten million of them - now that's what you can call "Tyranny" with a capital T.
Amazing what you learn by spending a lifetime studying W.W.1!!!
Jim Carroll