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May 12, 1937:
George VI crowned at Westminster
At London's Westminster Abbey, George VI and his consort, Lady
Elizabeth, are crowned king and queen of the United Kingdom as
part of a coronation ceremony that dates back more than a
millennium.
George, who studied at Dartmouth Naval College and served in
World War I, ascended to the throne after his elder brother, King
Edward VIII, abdicated on December 11, 1936. Edward, who was the
first English monarch to voluntarily relinquish the English
throne, agreed to give up his title in the face of widespread
criticism of his desire to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an
American divorcee.
In 1939, King George became the first British monarch to visit
America and Canada. During World War II, he worked to keep up
British morale by visiting bombed areas and touring war zones.
George and Elizabeth also remained in bomb-damaged Buckingham
Palace during the war, shunning the relative safety of the
countryside, and George made a series of important
morale-boosting radio broadcasts, for which he overcame a speech
impediment.
After the war, the royal family visited South Africa, but a
planned tour of Australia and New Zealand had to be postponed
indefinitely when the king fell ill in 1949. Despite his illness,
he continued to perform state duties until his death in 1952. He
was succeeded by his first-born daughter, who was crowned Queen
Elizabeth II in June 1953.
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