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Westminster Hall, London (lying in state) St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. (official ceremony) Participants. See list. On 6 February 1952, George VI, King of the United Kingdom, died at the age of 56, at Sandringham House, after a prolonged cancer. His state funeral took place on 15 February 1952.
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947, and the first head of the Commonwealth ...
King George VI died suddenly in his sleep on 6 February 1952 after 16 years on the throne following his brother’s abdication in December 1936.
The funeral of Queen Mary (born Princess Victoria Mary of Teck), widow to King George V, took place on 31 March 1953 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, following her death on 24 March and subsequent lying in state at Westminster Hall.
George V's voice. George delivers the first Royal Christmas Message. Recorded 25 December 1932. 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.
Date of death/Left office 1 Michael Joseph Savage: 11 December 1936 27 March 1940 2 Peter Fraser: 27 March 1940: 13 December 1949 3 Sidney Holland: 13 December 1949 20 September 1957
At the place of death) for private viewing. Both George V and George VI died at Sandringham and their bodies lay in the church there for a time, watched over by estate workers and gamekeepers; whereas the body of Edward VII lay in the throne room in Buckingham Palace.
The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial, situated between The Mall and Carlton Gardens in central London, is a memorial to King George VI and his consort, Queen Elizabeth. [1] Completed in its present form in 2009, the memorial incorporates an earlier, Grade II listed statue of George VI by William McMillan, unveiled by his daughter ...
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. (official ceremony) Participants. British royal family. George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, died at the Sandringham House in Norfolk on 20 January 1936, at the age of 70. He was succeeded by the eldest son, Edward VIII, who abdicated that year.
George VI. Giorgi VI the Minor ( Georgian: გიორგი VI მცირე, romanized: giorgi VI mtsire; died 1313), from the Bagrationi dynasty was the 19th king ( mepe) of Georgia in 1311–1313. Son of King David VIII, he was appointed as King of Georgia (actually, only the eastern part of the country) by the Il-khan Öljeitü upon the ...