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He was interred initially in the Royal Vault until he was transferred to the King George VI Memorial Chapel inside St George's on 26 March 1969. [118] In 2002, fifty years after his death, the remains of his widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the ashes of his younger daughter, Princess Margaret, who both died that year, were interred ...
The body of George VI was moved from the Royal Vault on 26 March 1969 and reinterred in the newly-built King George VI Memorial Chapel. [20] His daughter, Princess Margaret, died on 9 February 2002 and, in accordance with her wishes, a private funeral was held at St George's Chapel.
Albert ascended the throne on Edward's abdication, taking the name George VI. When Mary attended the coronation of George VI, she became the first British dowager queen to do so. [d] Edward's abdication did not lessen her love for him, but she never wavered in her disapproval of his actions. [17] [45]
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. George was born during the reign of his paternal grandmother, Queen Victoria , as the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King ...
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Sandringham House in Norfolk, where King George V died. King George had suffered several bouts of serious illness since the First World War; he suffered from chronic bronchitis exacerbated by heavy smoking. [1] By 1935 he required the occasional use of oxygen tanks kept at his bedside. [2]
Why did George Foreman name all his sons George? ... George Jr. is "Junior," George III is "Monk," George IV is "Big Wheel," George V is "Red" and George VI is "Little Joey." ... She died suddenly ...
King George VI with Commonwealth prime ministers at Buckingham Palace for the 1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference. King George VI was the monarch of the United Kingdom, the Dominions, and the British Empire from 11 December 1936 until his death on 6 February 1952. He also was a founder and the first Head of the Commonwealth of Nations.