George VI

1. Life

King George VI was born Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George of York on 14 December 1895. He was the the X and George V's youngest son. (Bradford, p. 1)

1895 - 1952. King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions (1936 - 1952). Succeeded to the throne after his older brother, Edward VIII, had abdicated in order to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson (Abdication Crisis).

Father and predecessor of Elizabeth II.

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