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

His final public appearance was over a year prior, when he mourned the death of his wife ... Her husband, King George VI, had died unexpectedly 25 years prior in 1952 at just 56 years old.

King Charles's great-grandfather ... brother would succeed him as King George VI. The new King would go on to be a wartime ruler and reign until his sad death from lung cancer at the age of ...