In the summer of 1939, King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) visit F.
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, as she was known once George VI died, lived to be 101.
Among the successes were the Hennessy Gold Cup and King George VI Chase with Teeton Mill in 1998.
The Queen came to the throne on 6 February 1952 on the death of her father, King George VI.
With James Fox, very briefly, in the role of George V, and his son, Laurence Fox, as George VI.
In 1923, the Duke of York -- Britain's future King George VI -- married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey.
The King's Arms Hotel in Dorchester, Dorset, has played host to Queen Victoria and George VI since it was built in 1720.
But the intervening years were full of grief as the future George VI overcomes a crushing reticence to embrace a public persona.
In 1947 the Blue Train was the vehicle of choice for George VI and the royal family when they toured South Africa.
The film, which tells the tale of how King George VI overcame his stammer, was last week nominated for 12 Academy Awards.
It moved to Holbrook in 1933 and the Queen's father, George VI, laid the foundation stone at the new site in 1928.
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Newly-appointed as Duke of Edinburgh, Philip had to abandon his naval career for royal duties after the queen's father, George VI became ill.
In 1942, the Duke of Kent, youngest brother of King George VI, was killed in a plane crash during a war mission to Iceland.
The abandonment of the King George VI meeting at Kempton Park racecourse after a bomb warning brings back memories of the 1997 Grand National.
In the academy award-winning movie The Kings Speech, the difference in King George VI ability to lead came down to his ability to communicate.
In 2010, he also lent his intonation to the Italian version of The King's Speech, doubling up for Colin Firth's Oscar-winning turn as George VI.
Other triumphs included the King George VI Chase in 1985 on Wayward Lad - the name of the horse was later used as the title for his autobiography.
Last year, a story about George VI, the central character in the Oscar-winning The King's Speech, began circulating on the internet, alleging the wartime monarch had Nazi sympathies.
"He listened to King George VI on the radio in the war, and he thought, 'well, if a king can overcome his stammer, so can I', " Hooper said.
Charles had specifically requested accompanying her to St Georges Chapel at Windsor Castle, where she will be interred with her husband, King George VI, who died in 1952.
McCoy's biggest win of the season came at Kempton in Boxing Day's King George VI Chase aboard Best Mate, a ride he took following regular jockey Jim Culloty's suspension.
King George VI's worries over the government's precarious hold on power pushed Attlee into calling an election just 20 months after the country had last gone to the polls.
The George Cross was instituted in 1940 by the Queen's father, George VI, for "acts of the greatest heroism or of the most courage in circumstances of extreme danger".
Taranis is expected to take his chance for champion trainer Paul Nicholls and punters have been quick to support the youngster for Kempton's King George VI Chase on Boxing Day.
Seidler, now 73, was a college student when he first decided to write about how King George VI overcame his stutter to lead Britain through World War II with inspiring radio addresses.
His collection was thought to contain tens of thousands of first-day covers, including stamps marking England's 1966 World Cup win, the Silver Jubilee of George V and the silver wedding of George VI.
Their film "The King's Speech, " the fascinating personal and historical story of George VI's work with a therapist to overcome a stutter, was rated R because of one scene involving use of the f-word.
It turned out to be a triple blow - with the jockey missing out on the horse's victories in the Epsom Derby, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes and the Irish Derby.
The second of them, who would be George VI, suffers at times from a terrible stammer and this is the story of his corrective instruction at the hands of a two-bit Australian expat actor, Lionel Logue.
Along with her husband, King George VI, the pair made their mark during World War Two by helping sustain national morale and helping resurrect the shattered image of the royal family after the preceding constitutional crisis.
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