George VI Biography

Birth of George VI, 2nd son of George V

Enters the Royal Naval College

Passes out from Dartmouth

Operated on for appendicitis

Sees service at the Battle of Jutland

Awarded the Order of the Garter on his 21st birthday

A royal proclamation by George V provides that all agnatic descendants of Queen Victoria would be members of the House of Windsor with the personal surname of Windsor

Operated on for a duodenal ulcer

Present when the Belgian royal family re-enter Brussels

Receives training in flying, an Avro biplane, & earns his wings

Appointed President of the Boys Welfare Association

Enters Cambridge as a freshman, Trinity College

Created the Duke of York & takes his seat in the House of Lords

Founds the Duke of Yorks Boys Camps

Attends the wedding of King Alexander of Yugoslavia as his "sponsor"

Marries Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, youngest daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore

Appointed Chairman of the Committee for the Wembley Exhibition

Birth of Elizabeth II, daughter of George VI & Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Attends the inauguration of the Parliament House in Australia

Under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, the monarch also becomes separately the king or queen of many Commonwealth Realms, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and others

Under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, the monarch also becomes separately the king or queen of many Commonwealth Realms, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and others

The Irish Free State leaves the United Kingdom in 1922, the actual name of the Kingdom is not changed until 1927, when he becomes separately the King of Ireland

Under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, the monarch also becomes separately the king or queen of many Commonwealth Realms, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and others

The Irish Free State leaves the United Kingdom in 1922, the actual name of the Kingdom is not changed until 1927, when he becomes separately the King of Ireland

Under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, the monarch also becomes separately the king or queen of many Commonwealth Realms, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and others

Under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, the monarch also becomes separately the king or queen of many Commonwealth Realms, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and others

Under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, the monarch also becomes separately the king or queen of many Commonwealth Realms, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and others

Under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, the monarch also becomes separately the king or queen of many Commonwealth Realms, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and others

Incapacitated by illness & delegates Sovereign authority to Counsellors of State

George VI & Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon have a daughter, Princess Margaret

Succeeds as King of Great Britain, after the abdication of his brother Edward VIII

Death of George V, becomes Heir-Presumptive to the Crown

Succeeds as King of Great Britain, after the abdication of his brother Edward VIII

Regency Act, defines Sovereign powers which can be delegated if the Sovereign is unfit

Regency Act, defines Sovereign powers which can be delegated if the Sovereign is unfit

Regency Act, defines Sovereign powers which can be delegated if the Sovereign is unfit

Regency Act, defines Sovereign powers which can be delegated if the Sovereign is unfit

Opens the National Maritime Museum, 1st public appearence since the abdication. George VIs 1st public apearence since the abdication

Opens the National Maritime Museum, 1st public appearence since the abdication. Opens the National Maritime Museum. George VIs 1st public apearence since the abdication

Opens the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.

Crowned King of Great Britain. Crowned George raher than Albert, too German & indicates link with George V

Accepts Baldwins resignation

The Windsors travel to Germany on a fact finding tour

10th to 12th Dec, proclaimed King by the Dominions

Makes a state visit to USA, 1st British Sovereign to visit the New World. Makes a state visit to Canada, 1st British Sovereign to visit the New World

Opens the exhibition at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow

Promotes the Entente in Paris

Pays a Royal visit to Paris

Tours the USA. Tours Canada

Leaves for Canada

Berths at Wolfes Cove 1 mile from Quebec

Addresses the Canadian Parliament & gives Royal Assent to Canadian Bills

Greeted by President Roosevelt & his wife. Crosses the Niagra Suspension Bridge into the United States

Makes a broadcast to the nation after the declaration of war

Present at Antibes when Britain declares war

Stays in London during the Battle of Britain & the Blitz

The King & Queen remain resident in London, Buckingham Palace is bombed twice

The King & Queen remain resident in London, Buckingham Palace is bombed twice

Wants Halifax to sit in the Commons as PM with his peerage in temporary abeyance

Buckingham Palace is hit by 6 bombs while George VI is in residence

A bomb falls on the garden of Buckingham Palace

Initiates the George Cross as the highest award for bravery for citizens

The George Cross is instituted King George VI, during the height of the Blitz, there was a strong desire to reward the many acts of civilian courage

Tours the ruins of Coventry for 5 hrs

Meets Winant, the new US Ambasador, in London, breaks with precedent

Awards the George Cross to the Island of Malta

Visits Bath

Speaks with assurance of, "our coming victory"

Crosses over to Normandy in the Arethusa & attends a conference at Montogomerys HQ

Broadcasts a victory message to the nation & commonwealth at 9.00 p.m

Broadcasts a victory message to the nation & commonwealth at 9.00 p.m

Tours South Africa and offers to return to Britain, but Attlee refuses

Pays a Royal visit to Rhodesia & opens the state Parliamen

Offers to return to Britain from the tour of South Africa, but Attlee refuses

Opens the new session of Parliament in Cape Town

Departs on HMS Vanguard for South Africa to help Jan Smuts against the Nationalist Party

Arrives at Duncan Dock received by the Governor of General, Prime Minister & the Cabinet. 1st time a reigning British Sovereign had step foot on South African soil

Give consent under the Royal Marriages Act for Elizabet to marry the Duke of Edinburgh

The King is no longer King-Emperor

The King is no longer King-Emperor

Gives Elizabeth away to the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey

Makes Philip the Duke of Edinburgh prior to his wedding to Elizabeth

The visit to South Africa does not prevent Nationalist victory at the elections

The visit to South Africa does not prevent Nationalist victory at the elections

Surrenders the title Emperor of India

Surrenders the title Emperor of India

Pays host at a state visit by the President of the French Republic

Opens the Festival of Britain

Prostrated by an attack of influenza, most official engagements are cancelled. Has part of his left lung removed because of lung cancer

Prostrated by an attack of influenza, most official engagements are cancelled

Agrees to the Prime Minister's request to close Parliament

Operated on at Buckingham Palace

Churchill accepts George VIs commission to form a Government

Attlee hands in his resignation as Prime Minister to George VI

Celebrates the 15th year of his accession to the throne

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