Albert Frederick Arthur George was born on December 14 1895 in York Cottage, Norfolk. He was born to his parents, George Frederick Ernest Albert the king of the United Kingdom at the time and Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes. King George early life he became crowned Prince Albert of York. He often suffered from ill health and was described as "easily frightened and somewhat prone to tears". His parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, were generally removed from their children's day-to-day upbringing, as was the norm in aristocratic families of that era. He had a stammer that lasted for many years, and was forced to write with his right hand although he was naturally left-handed. He suffered from chronic stomach problems as well as knock knees, for which he was forced to wear painful corrective splints.
Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901, and the Prince of Wales succeeded her as King Edward VII. The Duke of York became next in line to the throne. Prince Edward moved up to second in line, and Prince Albert was third in line for the throne. From 1909 King George went to Royal Naval College as a naval cadet. When Edward VII died in 1910, Albert's father became King George V. Prince Edward was created Prince of Wales, and Albert was second in line to the throne. Albert spent the first six months of 1913 on the training ship HMS Cumberland in the West Indies and on the east coast of Canada. In 1915 his commission, he began service in World War.
At the time when royals were expected to marry other royals, it was very weird that his parents let him marry anyone who he wants. I believe royal weddings should be that way not only marry a person who is a royal too or who has a lot of money. In 1920 George met Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. He became determined to marry her. Although Lady Elizabeth had royal Scottish blood she was still found to be a commoner. She rejected his proposal twice in 1920 and in 1921 because she thought that marring into the British royal family was too much work. After hard convincing from George she said yes. They were married on April 26, 1923 in Westminster Abby. Lady Elizabeth was crowned "Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York.”
On January 20, 1936 King George V died and George’s brother Prince Edward was king. He was throned as Edward VIII. Prince Albert and his three brothers took a shift standing guard over their father's body as it laid, in a closed casket, in Westminster Hall. Edward was unmarried and had no children which meant he wasn’t the heir for the throne. Less than a year later, on December 11, 1936 Edward abdicated so he could marry his mistress. Albert became king, a position he was reluctant to accept. Albert assumed the name "George VI" to emphasize continuity with his father and restore confidence in the monarchy. George VI was also forced to buy from Edward the royal residences of Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House, as these were private properties and did not pass to George VI automatically.
The growing likelihood of war in Europe dominated the early reign of George VI. In May and June 1939, the King and Queen toured Canada and the United States. George was the first reigning monarch of Canada to visit North America, although he had been to Canada previously as Prince Albert and as Duke of York. The entire trip was a measure intended to soften the strong isolationist tendencies among the North American public with regard to the developing tensions in Europe. The fear that George would be compared unfavorably to the last king, Edward VIII, was an outrage because they saw that George VI was a different person than his brother. The king and the queen visited the World’s Fair 1939 in New York and stayed with Franklin D Roosevelt at the white and a private estate the president had in Hyde Park, New York.
In September 1939, Britain declared war on Nazi Germany. World War II had just begun. . They Roosevelt at the white and a private estate the president had in Hyde Park, New York. officially stayed in Buckingham Palace throughout the war, although they usually spent nights at Windsor Castle. One day they were in Buckingham Palace and two Nazi German bombs hit the courtyard. Barely killing them both. In August 1942, the King's brother Prince George was killed on active service. The King and Queen provided morale-boosting visits throughout the United Kingdom, visiting bomb sites and munitions factories, and in the King's case visiting military forces. In January 1946, King George addressed the United Nations at their first assembly, “our faith in the equal rights of men and women and of nation’s great and small.”
In 1947 the King and his family toured Southern Africa. The Prime Minster of
South Africa wanted the king and queen of Great Britain to give him advertising
for his campaign. But
the king didn’t get to make it because he was having trouble with his heavy
smoking. The World War II has taken a toll on King George VI he was feeling
sick all the time. He told his daughter Elizabeth that if he were to die she
was would the next in line for the thrown. Even though he felt so bad he still
cared so much for his daughter that he went to go see her off as she and her
husband went for a peace tour Australia
via Kenya. On
the morning of 6 February, George VI was discovered dead in bed at
Sandringham House in Norfolk. He had died from a coronary thrombosis in his
sleep at the age of 56.
His daughter
Elizabeth flew back to Britain from Kenya, as Queen Elizabeth II. From 9 February for two days his coffin
rested in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, before lying in state at Westminster
Hall from 11 February. His funeral took place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor
Castle, on the 15th. In 2002 Queen Elizabeth II grandmother Queen Elizabeth the
mother queen died and they put the ashes of King George VI and his father and
mother put them all together as a royal family. Queen Elizabeth II is still in
rein after 50 years in 2011; her grandson just got married with a young woman.
Her family is still in rein after almost 950 years.
