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King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princess Elizabeth with RAF personnel during World War II. Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the United Kingdom and the self-governing Dominions other than Ireland declared war on Nazi Germany. [77] The King and Queen resolved to stay in London, despite German bombing raids.
Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from 1865 to 1904, was a British peer and landowner who was the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
Elizabeth was born on 21 April 1926, the first child of Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), and his wife, Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Her father was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary , and her mother was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th ...
Her father’s daughter. For the first decade of Queen Elizabeth II‘s life, no one expected that the young princess would someday become queen, given her place on the royal family tree.Yet in a ...
Queen Elizabeth II. Elizabeth was the first-born child of her father, King George VI, who was the second-born son of King George V. As the second-born son, it was not expected that her father ...
Queen Elizabeth II wastes no time honoring her late father for Father’s Day. On June 19, the Queen uploaded a photo of her when she reigned as a Princess and her father King George VI back in 1946.
The chapel was commissioned by Elizabeth II in 1962 as a burial place for her father, George VI and for herself after her death in 2022, it was completed in 1969. It contains the final resting places of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the ashes of Princess Margaret.
Get the full story of what happened when the father of Queen Elizabeth II, also known as King George VI, died, and how the royal went from Princess to Queen overnight.