King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
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The king who never expected to reign. Thrust onto the throne when his brother abdicated to marry a divorcée, he steadied Britain through its darkest war with a stutter he fought to control and a resolve the public came to trust.
Born Albert in 1895, second son to the future George V, he grew up in his elder brother Edward's shadow—trained for the navy, served in the First World War, married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, and worked with therapist Lionel Logue to manage a debilitating stutter. When Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936 to wed Wallis Simpson, Albert became George VI, a king by accident. He guided the British Empire through the Second World War from September 1939, sharing the hardships—Buckingham Palace bombed during the Blitz, his brother the Duke of Kent killed on service—and emerging as a symbol of n…
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In order that they should be worthily and promptly recognised, I have decided to create, at once, a new mark of honour for men and women in all walks of civilian life.
We are not a family, we are a firm.
You've been pretty unlucky with the weather, Mr Piper.
The highest of distinctions is service to others.
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