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Strike-badgered General Motors scarcely had time to notice this week that a Scottish member of its board, hearty Sir Harry Duncan McGowan, was raised to the peerage as a Baron by His Majesty King ...

King George VI was an unlikely monarch – acceding to the throne in 1936 after the abdication of his older brother King Edward VIII, who reigned for less than a year.

King George VI died in his sleep after suffering a coronary thrombosis on February 6, 1952 at Sandringham House, ... Once at Westminster Hall, His Majesty’s coffin laid in state ...

On February 6, 1953, Her Late Majesty marked the first anniversary of King George VI 's death quietly with her husband Prince Philip. Above: The then Princess Elizabeth with her father in 1946.

Her Majesty The Queen spent her first 10 years assuming she would live her life as a "minor" royal. But all that changed. ... he took one of his middle names to become King George VI.