On 6 February 1952, the Queen’s father, King George VI died suddenly and unexpectedly in his sleep. Aged just 52, the King had undergone surgery for carcinoma in September the year prior and had ...

LONDON, Feb. 6, 1952 (UP)-King George VI died peacefully in his sleep early today and 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth became reigning sovereign of the British Commonwealth and empire. No ...

King George VI died in his sleep. It was a defining moment in the British monarchy. Princess Elizabeth, then 25, was in Kenya ...

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Claims 50 years after his death revealed there may have been other factors at play during his final moments. Back in 1986, it was claimed that King George V had been euthanised by his doctor ...

a bishop stepped on the King's train and another put his thumb over the words of the oath when the King was about to read it. George VI died on 6th February 1952. His coffin lay in Westminster Hall ...

She died in 1953, one year after her son, King George VI. The youngest child of George V and Queen Mary, John was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of four, and was sent to live at Sandringham ...

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