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King George VI.
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The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI,
HM George VI lived through the greatest tests of a monarch in modern times, two world wars, the rise of socialism and the decline of British hegemony and the empire. On top of all of that he had to deal with a very much alive and active predecessor: his brother Edward VIII. George (or Bertie to his friends and family, his first given name being Albert) was not born as the heir, he was second in line, a shy man, with an outgoing grandfather, a loud overbearing father and extremely popular and social brother. Destined to the sidelines of history and a career in the forces, George would have been happy to sit there, due his duty and watch everyone else. History had other plans for him. In the face of adversity, he lead his country from one of its darkest times, the Second World War to become the nation’s unifying and beloved monarch.
The inheritance and world that George was born into in , was a British epoch. One six of the globe fell under dominion of his great grandmother the Queen Empress Victoria. Wealth, confidence and protection of the sea all gave the British people a future to look forward to. George had a very Edwardian upper class childhood, sheltered and tutored at home, with distant p
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George VI: The Dutiful King
The definitive life of Martyr VI, description hero place The King's Speech
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'Lucid, disenchanting and commendable fair Martyr VI has been blessed in his biographer' Prince Ziegler
'Vivid, thorough limit enjoyable' Independent
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