Home About Chat Users Issues Party Candidates Polling Firms Media News Polls Calendar Key Races United States President Senate House Governors International

New User Account
"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource." 
Email: Password:

  George VI,
CANDIDATE DETAILS
AffiliationMonarchy  
 
Name George VI
Previous Names06/03/1920 - 12/11/1936 Albert, Duke of York
11/09/1901 - 06/03/1920 Prince Albert of Wales
01/22/1901 - 11/09/1901 Prince Albert of Cornwall and York
12/14/1895 - 01/22/1901 Prince Albert of York
AddressBuckingham Palace
London, , United Kingdom
EmailNone
WebsiteNone
Born December 14, 1895
DiedFebruary 06, 1952 (56 years)
ContributorJake
Last ModifedJuan Croniqueur
Dec 14, 2023 12:27am
Tags German - Married - Air Force - Navy - Anglican - Protestant -
InfoKing George VI

King George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor1) (December 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952), was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of other commonwealth realms from 1936 to 1952. Generally known within his family as "Bertie" and to the public before becoming king as Prince Albert, he was the second son of the then- Duke of York (later George V of the United Kingdom), and his duchess, later Queen Mary. Prince Albert was created Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Killarney in 1920, the same peerages that his father had held from 1892 to 1901.

There seemed no likelihood of his ever attaining the throne, because his elder brother, the bright and popular Prince Edward, was ahead of him in the line of succession. Accordingly, Prince Albert was allowed to serve in the Royal Navy during World War I and had a certain amount of freedom in his choice of wife. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, after she had turned him down several times.



King George VI
King of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936-52)
King of Ireland (1936-1949)
Emperor of India (1936-1948)Because of the distance between them and the throne, the Duke and Duchess of York were able to bring up their two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, in a relatively normal environment, without the pomp and circumstance that might otherwise have surrounded them. Albert was a shy man, who suffered throughout his life from a severe stammer. He was dismayed when his elder brother David, having acceded to the throne in 1936 as King Edward VIII, decided to abdicate, leaving him to take on the crown. His Coronation at Westminster Abbey occurred on May 12, 1937 and upon taking the throne, he chose the name "George VI", partly to comply with Queen Victoria's wish that no king of England have the name "Albert" and partly to restore confidence in the monarchy by using the same name as his father.

A few years later, World War II broke out, and the royal family, whose popularity had been waning, sought to set an example and were a decisive factor in keeping up the nation's spirits. The king's morale-boosting Christmas broadcast to the nation, early in the war, went down in history.

After the war, the king's health deteriorated rapidly. He was suffering from lung cancer and last appeared in public at London Airport to see his daughter Elizabeth off on a tour of Africa. He died suddenly at Sandringham House on February 6, 1952, and is buried at Windsor Castle. His elder daughter succeeded him as Queen Elizabeth II.

King George VI also served as the last King of Ireland in accordance with the provisions of the (Irish) External Relations Act, 1936, until its repeal and the coming into force of the Republic of Ireland Act, 1948, in April 1949. Though some questioned whether the former Act actually made him King of Ireland, that fact was explicitly acknowledged in a debate in the Irish Senate in December 1948 by then Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) John A. Costello, himself a former Irish Attorney-General. It was also accepted by then Irish President, Sean T. O'Kelly. Current Irish president Mary McAleese attended the funeral of his widow, Queen Elizabeth, the last Queen of Ireland, in 2002.

King George VI was also the last Emperor of India before independence was granted in 1947.


Footnote
1 At the time of his birth, Prince Albert's surname was Wettin and the Royal House name was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In 1917, both the dynastic name and personal surname were changed to Windsor owing to their Germanic origins (and because the UK was at war with Germany).


JOB APPROVAL POLLS

BOOKS
Title Purchase Contributor

EVENTS
Start Date End Date Type Title Contributor

NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor

DISCUSSION
Importance? 10.00000 Average

FAMILY
Wife Elizabeth the Queen Mother Apr 26, 1923-Feb 06, 1952
Daughter Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Grandson Charles III 1948-
Granddaughter Anne, Princess Royal 1950-
Daughter Margaret, Countess of Snowdon 1930-2002
Father George Frederick Ernest Albert Windsor (George V) 1865-1936
Grandfather Albert Edward Wettin of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Edward VII) 1841-1910
Great-Grandfather Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Prince Albert) 1819-1861
Grand Aunt Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1840-1901
1st Cousin Once Removed Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Viktor Hohenzollern (Emperor William II) 1859-1941
2nd Cousin August Wilhelm Heinrich Günther Viktor von Preußen 1887-1949
2nd Cousin Victoria Louise Hohenzollern 1892-1980
1st Cousin Once Removed Sophie Dorothea Ulrike Alice Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 1870-1932
2nd Cousin George Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (George II) 1890-1947
2nd Cousin Alexander Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Alexander) 1893-1920
2nd Cousin Helen Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1896-1982
2nd Cousin Paul of Greece 1901-1964
Grand Aunt Alice Maud Mary of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1843-1878
1st Cousin Once Removed Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie of Hesse and by the Rhine 1863-1950
2nd Cousin Princess Victoria Alice of Battenberg 1885-1969
2nd Cousin Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Battenberg 1889-1965
2nd Cousin Louis Mountbatten 1900-1979
1st Cousin Once Removed Victoria Alix Helena Louise Beatrice of Romanov (Empress Alexandra) 1872-1918
2nd Cousin Anastasia Nikolaevna of Romanov 1901-1918
Grand Uncle Alfred Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1844-1900
1st Cousin Once Removed Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Queen Marie) 1875-1938
2nd Cousin Carol of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (Carol II) 1893-1953
2nd Cousin Elisabetha Charlotte Josephine Alexandra Victoria Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 1894-1956
2nd Cousin Maria Karađorđević (Queen Maria) 1900-1961
Grand Aunt Louise Caroline Alberta Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1848-1939
Grand Uncle Arthur William Patrick Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1850-1942
1st Cousin Once Removed Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1882-1920
2nd Cousin Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund of Bernadotte 1906-1947
2nd Cousin Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louise Margareta Glucksburg 1910-2000
2nd Cousin Bertil Gustaf Oskar Carl Eugén Bernadotte 1912-1997
1st Cousin Once Removed Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert of Connaught 1883-1938
Grand Uncle Leopold George Duncan Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1853-1884
1st Cousin Once Removed Leopold Charles Edward George Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1884-1954
2nd Cousin Sibylle Calma Maria Alice Bathildis Feodora Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1908-1972
Grand Aunt Beatrice Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1857-1944
1st Cousin Once Removed Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg 1887-1969
2nd Cousin Infante Juan Carlos Bourbon 1913-1993
Great-Grandmother Alexandrina Victoria Wettin of Hanover (Victoria) 1819-1901
Aunt Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria of Glücksburg 1869-1938
1st Cousin Alexander Edward Christian Frederik (Olav V) 1903-1991
Grandmother Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Queen Alexandra) 1844-1925
Great-Grandfather Christian (Christian IX) 1818-1906
Grand Uncle Frederik (Frederik VIII) 1843-1912
1st Cousin Once Removed Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm (Christian X) 1870-1947
2nd Cousin Christian Frederik Franz Michael Carl Valdemar Georg (Frederik IX) 1899-1972
1st Cousin Once Removed Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel (Haakon VII) 1872-1957
1st Cousin Once Removed Ingeborg Charlotte Caroline Frederikke Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 1878-1958
2nd Cousin Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra 1901-1954
2nd Cousin Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra Bernadotte 1905-1935
Grand Uncle George Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (George I) 1845-1913
1st Cousin Once Removed Constantine Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (Constantine I) 1868-1923
1st Cousin Once Removed Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark 1882-1944
2nd Cousin Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921-2021
Grand Aunt Maria Feodorovna of Romanov 1847-1928
1st Cousin Once Removed Nicholas Romanov (Nicholas II) 1868-1918
1st Cousin Once Removed Michael Alexandrovich of Romanov (Michael II) 1878-1918
1st Cousin Once Removed Olga Alexandrovna Romanov 1882-1960
Grand Aunt Thyra Amelie Caroline Charlotte Anne Hanover 1853-1933
1st Cousin Once Removed Ernest Augustus Christian George Hanover 1887-1953
2nd Cousin Ernest Augustus George William Christian Louis Francis Joseph Nicholas Oscar Hanover 1914-1987
2nd Cousin Frederica Louisa Thyra Victoria Margareta Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 1917-1981
Grand Uncle Valdemar Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 1858-1939
1st Cousin Once Removed Margaret of Bourbon-Parma 1895-1992
2nd Cousin Anne Antoinette Françoise Charlotte Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1923-2016
Great-Grandmother Louise Wilhelmine Frederikke Caroline Auguste Julie Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg 1817-1898
Brother Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor (Edward VIII) 1894-1972
Brother Henry William Frederick Albert Windsor 1900-1974
Mother Mary (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) Windsor (Queen Mary) 1867-1953
Grandfather Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander of Teck 1837-1900
Uncle Alexander Cambridge 1874-1957
1st Cousin May Abel Smith 1906-1994
Grandmother Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth Württemberg 1833-1897
Great-Grandfather Adolphus Frederick Hanover 1774-1850

INFORMATION LINKS
RACES
  08/15/1947 King of Pakistan Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  05/12/1937 King of the United Kingdom Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  01/20/1936 Heir Presumptive Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
ENDORSEMENTS