- Children: Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.
- Saw action at the Battle of Jutland aboard the battleship HMS Collingwood.
- At the time of his death his mother Queen Mary was also dying of lung cancer.
- He was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from December 11, 1936 to February 6, 1952.
- Son of King George V and Queen Mary
- Brother of Duke of Windsor, Princess Mary, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent, and Prince John.
- He was diagnosed with Buerger's disease (acute inflammation and thrombosis of arteries and veins of the legs) on 12 November 1948. On 12 March 1949, exactly four months later, the King underwent surgery. On 23 September 1951 he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous lung, but the cancer had spread. In the early hours of 6 February 1952, a blood clot stopped his heart during his sleep.
- He was born with the style "His Highness" rather than the higher style "His Royal Highness". His great-grandmother Queen Victoria , the reigning monarch at the time, decided all children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales should have the higher style and issued letters patent to the effect in 1898. In 1917, his father, George V, issued letters patent clarifying who was entitled to a princely title and "Royal Highness" style, which limited it to the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.
- He officially ceased to be King of Ireland when the country left the Commonwealth on 18 April 1949 and officially became a republic.
- King George VI once sat in a darkening room as he was too shy to ask the servants to turn on the lights.
- During his schooling years at the Royal Navy College, Osborne he graduated 68th out of 68th in his final examinations.
- During the Second World War, a number of European royals (including Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and King Haakon VII of Norway) came to stay with him at Buckingham Palace to escape the German advance.
- Suffered a debilitating speech deficit all his life, only abated after receiving speech therapy from Australian-born elocutionist, Lionel Logue.
- On the 13th of September in 1940, King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, were in Buckingham Palace when the building was struck by a Luftwaffe bomb. Notwithstanding a worker's death and few injured servants, the royal couple fortunately escaped unharmed.
- Although traditionally a feminine activity, King George VI was a proficient embroiderer and set of chair coverings he made are still kept in Windsor Castle.
- Normally went to bed at midnight and was awoken at 7:30am.
- On March of 1949, King George VI required the necessity of a lumbar sympathectomy to repair an arterial blockage of his right leg which would have resulted in the amputation of the limb.
- His present for his 18th birthday from his mother Queen Mary was a gold cigarette case.
- He ceased to be Emperor of India when the country achieved independence on 15 August 1947, although he did not officially relinquish the title until 22 June 1948.
- He allowed Neville Chamberlain to appear on the balcony at Buckingham Palace following the Munich Agreement, which gave the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother later said that the balcony appearance should not have been allowed.
- Great-great grandchildren: Prince George of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Prince Louis of Wales, and Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
- Great-grandchildren: Peter Phillips, Zara Tindall, Prince William of Wales, Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Eugenie.
- Grandchildren: King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, David Armstrong-Jones, Prince Edward, and Sarah Armstrong-Jones.
- He usually smoked 20-25 cigarettes a day.
- In the late 1930s he was seen as being supportive of appeasement. He would have preferred Lord Halifax to replace Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister in May 1940.
- He publicly supported the Munich Agreement.
- Chamberlain's policy towards Hitler was the subject of some opposition in the House of Commons, which led historian John Grigg to describe the King's behavior in associating himself so prominently with a politician as "the most unconstitutional act by a British sovereign in the present century".
- The last Emperor of India.
- The Royal Family officially stayed in Buckingham Palace throughout the war, although they usually spent nights at Windsor Castle during the Blitz.
- As a child, he feared the presence of his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, and would result in fearful weeping upon being presented to her.
- After his doctors discovered the presence of a malignant tumor in his chest, King George VI underwent surgery to remove his left lung. However, he was never informed on the diagnosis and would inevitably die five months later.
- In 1939, he became the first reigning British monarch to visit the United States when he and Queen Elizabeth visited New York City and Washington, D.C. (Other British monarchs visited the U.S. before their ascensions, but he was the first to do so as a reigning monarch.).
- In 1938, at the peak of the British Empire's size, George was sovereign and head of state to 531 million people, having the most subjects of any monarch in history.
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