KING George VI was the father of the late Queen Elizabeth ... not the direct heir to the throne after his father King George V died in January of 1936. His older brother, King Edward VIII was ...

until she died in 2022 and was succeeded by her son, King Charles III. But after nearly a century, the stories of the abdicated king and his divorced bride, and how King George VI became king ...

The King has heralded the “service and sacrifice of the wartime generation” in a speech on the 80th anniversary of VE Day, echoing the words of his late grandfather, King George VI.

In 1936, King George V died and Edward briefly reigned as King Edward VIII before he abdicated in favour of his brother order to marry his divorced American lover, Wallis Simpson. King George VI ...

He elected not to wear medals, reflecting the same choice made by King George VI when he stepped on to the ... while fighting in the same region. He died in June 2006 aged 89.

“It is now eighty years since my grandfather, King George VI, announced to the nation and the Commonwealth that ‘the dreadful shadow of war has passed from our hearths and our homes.