King Georg 6 Biography

Do you want to see only good news? Return to ordinary tape? Elizabeth II will be the first monarch in the history of the country to reign as many as 70 years. She ascended the throne on February 6 after the death of her father, King George VI, who was headed by the British Empire during the Second World War. The British empire is still the rules of his great -grandmother - Queen Victoria.

The photos in which she poses with him have been preserved. Victoria died when George was six years old. Queen Victoria with great -grandchildren. The future king George VI is left below. He was completely called Albert Frederick Arthur George, and before the coronation the first name was most often used - Albert, received in honor of the late husband of Victoria. And friends and relatives called the prince simply - Bertie.

In his youth, Georg served in the military fleet and aviation, and then started an affair with Australia Sheila Nummolm - the wife of the famous gambler Lord Lafboro is not the most decent acquaintance for a member of the royal family, but his elder brother made it not. In the end, his father intervened and demanded that Georg immediately stop disgracing the prince's title.

He reluctantly submitted and began to look for a more suitable party. Her next lover was Prince Sergey Obolensky, then she met with the star of Italian cinema Rudolf Valentino, got divorced twice and got married. The new chosen one of Georg was a lady of much more noble origin. She was embarrassed by the responsibility, which was threatened with a marriage with a member of the royal family.

She twice refused the marriage proposal made by the prince, and agreed only for the third time. In the year they got married and immediately went on a trip to Africa. Many years later, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will do almost the same way. The wife of George VI lived in the year and died in a year, playing in the history of the British monarchy an almost more important role than the king himself remained the head of the royal family even after her daughter occupied the throne, the current Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II.

Her younger sister Margaret was born four years later. Many of their hobbies, including love for riding and breeding Corgi, Elizabeth II inherited from George as his daughter, Georg had a weakness for animals. In the year, he gave Elizabeth and Margaret Puppy nicknamed Duka. Since then, Elizabeth has not parted with dogs. At one time, she kept a whole pack of 30 Corges in the palace.

But she did not care about her father: with him in the Windsor castle there was even a pigsty. He was the youngest son of the king, so the crown should not go to him, but his older brother Edward. And this really happened, but not for long. The gloomy prediction of their father came true, which always believed that the non -POWER Eduard would be enough for a few months to destroy his career.

When Eduard ascended the throne in January, he did not want to part with his lover - American Wallis Simpson, who had not only kings in his family, but simply aristocrats. Even worse, before meeting Eduard, she was married twice, and then she got divorced. In high society, this was considered an unheard of scandal. The Government of Great Britain and the Church of England did not approve of the relations of the king and Wallis Simpson.

Edward thought and decided that the bride was more expensive for him than a crown. In December, he turned to the radio nation and announced that he was renouncing the throne. On that day, the former Prince Albert became King George VI, and his wife became the Queen-Konverta Elizabeth. Despite the difficult defect in the speech that George suffered since childhood, he managed to make his first speech in the new quality almost without hesitation before that the king was engaged in a eminent speech therapist who taught him how to cope with stuttering.

But public performances were still not easy for him. About this episode of the biography of George VI tells the film “The King says! King George VI on the right, the queen-sailing of Elizabeth on the left with the daughters Elizabeth and Margaret and the queen-mother, year photo: AP after the coronation it was impossible to avoid communication with the public.

The king had to constantly speak and talk with people, including world leaders of that time. So, contrary to tradition, he did not look for the bride of royal origin, unlike his daughter: the husband of Elizabeth II became a descendant of the monarchs of Greece and Denmark. Georg defiantly rejected racism, which for the aristocrats of that time was in the order of things before the coronation, he shocked the highest society, playing pair tennis with a black athlete.

Later, during a trip to South Africa, the apartheid, he was offended when he was forbidden to shook his hands black. The white guards who were assigned to him in South Africa, Georg called the Gestapo. He visited the victims of German bombing, met with ordinary citizens in bomb shelters, made trips to military factories and positions of the British troops, including almost at the forefront.None of the royal family members were injured, but this shows that the king was no less dangerous than his subjects, and of his own free will.

George VI product card, year photo: AP When in the warring UK limited the sale of oil, sugar, meat and other foods, George VI, along with ordinary British, used grocery cards. The king’s younger brother participated in hostilities and died in the year. The collapse of the empire began to gain momentum only after the Second World War. In the year, British India received independence, on the territory of which India and Pakistan are now located.

Then the British crown lost Ceylon now Sri Lanka and Myanmar, and the Palestinian land, which was previously controlled by the United Kingdom, was given to Israel. In the year, Libya and Oman left the empire. Back in his youth, Georg added to Nicotine and all his life was an avid smoker. According to legend, while studying at the university, the teacher caught him with a cigarette.

He tried to report to the prince and stated that such behavior throws a shadow at the royal family. The word abandoned by the future king turned into a jargon designation of the royal family, still used. Even Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in the famous interview with Opre Winfrey, after Georg called the royal family, however, at that time the teacher was right, but the prince did not.

You really should not smoke. After the war, George VI’s health began to deteriorate, and the cause of most of his ailments was precisely smoking. As a result, the king was discovered by lung cancer, and in the last months of his life he had to almost get away from his disease. The news of this was found by his eldest daughter, Princess Elizabeth, in Kenya, where she was on a visit.

In the UK, she returned to the queen.