Queen Elizabeth II's father never expected to take the throne—until a royal ruckus changed the monarchy forever. Our royal ...

The unique situation of King George VI’s well-known stutter put a human face on the British monarchy in a way that had never quite been seen before.

He drew on his own painful experiences with a stutter in depicting King George VI’s struggles to overcome his impediment and rally Britain in World War II. By Trip Gabriel David Seidler ...

In the film, The King's Speech, there's a great scene where Geoffrey Rush gets Colin Firth (playing King George VI) to listen to ... without a stutter, a miraculous transformation.

In addition to his “lifelong struggle” with a stutter, Prince Albert ... in 1936 when Edward abdicated and Bertie became King George VI. Smith sheds light on how Elizabeth’s support and ...

His children were former King George VI and former King Edward VIII. He was Queen Elizabeth II's grandfather and according to the royal family website, he gifted her the Shetland pony named Peggy.

Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest in the King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle’s St George’s Chapel, alongside her mother. The King George VI memorial chapel was commissioned ...

Queen Elizabeth's funeral will come 70 years after father King George VI's, and her coffin will rest in the same place: the King George VI Memorial Chapel in Windsor Castle Queen Elizabeth II's ...

When the future King George VI learned that his brother had decided to abdicate, he sobbed for an hour on the shoulder of his mother, Queen Mary. Next in line to the monarchy, he had no desire to ...