#king george vi

[leonisandmurex]

Tickle fight! || William & Charlotte, Lilibet & Margot, Peter & James, Louise & Isla, Charles & William, Diana & William, William, George, Charlotte & Louis, Charles & Diana, Elizabeth & Charles, Catherine & Louis

[collarsncrowns]

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with the Prime Minister of Canada in Banff, Alberta. May 1939.

[heavyarethecrowns]

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Spam (Part 2)

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

No official announcement of the princess' engagement had yet been made. The name of Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten formerly Prince Philip of Greece has been repeatedly mentioned throughout the world. To inquire as about her engagement the Princess said 'you must wait and see'.

There was, by now, one very regular visitor to the palace. In 1946, Prince Philip came back from the Far East and was appointed to a Royal Navy training unit. Palace staff noticed a new photograph on Princess Elizabeth’ desk. Following a night out with the Prince to see the musical Oklahoma!, she had taken to playing the song ‘People Will Say We’re In Love’ on her gramophone. Crawfie and others noted that the Prince’s sports car was an increasingly familiar sight at Buckingham Palace. He had even taken to inviting himself round to see Lilibet, as he acknowledged in a half-apology to the Queen. ‘However contrite,’ he wrote to her in June 1946, ‘I feel there is always a small voice that keeps saying “nothing ventured, nothing gained" - well, I did venture and I gained a wonderful time.’

SEPTEMBER 1946 BALMORAL

The next step would come when the Prince was invited to join the Royal Family house party in te Highlands, later that same summer. ‘I suppose I began to think about it seriously when I got back in forty-six and went to Balmoral,’ Prince Philip told his biographer, Basil Boothroyd. ‘It was probably then that we began to think about it seriously and even talk about it.’ That was the Duke’s understated version, long after the event, of what happened. He did rather more than talk about it. It was at Balmoral that the twenty-five-year-old Prince proposed to his twenty-year-old sweetheart. As the royal biographer, William Shawcrow, has revealed, the Prince was ecstatic when she accepted, and they then successfully sought the approval of the King and Queen. ‘I am sure I do not deserve all the good things which had happened to me,’ Prince Philip wrote to his future mother-in-law soon afterwards, in September 1946. ‘To have been spared in the war and seen victory, to have been given the chance to rest and re-adjust myself, to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly, makes all one’s personal and even the world’s troubles seem small and petty.” This recent ‘circumstance’, he added, had done ‘more for me than anything else in my life.’ | Queen of Our Times by Robert Hardman.

[thiziri]

King George VI with his granddaughter, Princess Anne 💕

[ccii-xxx]

The Duke and Duchess of York with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose of York, 1933

[for-valour]

SO CUTE! Bertie being all awkward and forgetful with the camp sing-songs :)

The Duke of York attending his beloved Boys' Summer Camp in Southwold, Sussex, 1935. The gestures are to an old Pennsylvania Dutch folk song called Johnny Schmoker.

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[classicrareroyalpics]

RIP

[monarquiasi]

Queen Victoria lying-in-state (January 1901)

King Edward VII lying-in-state (May 1910)

King George V lying-in-state (January 1936)

King George VI lying-in-state (February 1952)

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother lying-in-state (April 2002)

Queen Elizabeth II lying-in-state (September 2022)

[theroyalhistory]

The Duke and Duchess of York (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) attend a charity ball, November 1936

[grandmaster-anne]

circa 1927: From the left: King George V and Queen Mary (seated), the Duke of York and Duchess of York with 14-month old Princess Elizabeth and, on the extreme right, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore.

[leonisandmurex]

Father of the Bride || Bertie & Elizabeth, 1947 || Philip & Anne, 1973 || Michael & Catherine, 2011

[collarsncrowns]

The Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) with their daughters Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret.

[heavyarethecrowns]

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Spam (Part 2)

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

God Save the King !

King Edward VII ✧ 24 January 1901 King George V ✧ 9 May 1910 King Edward VIII ✧ 21 January 1936 King George VI ✧ 12 December 1936 King Charles III ✧ 10 September 2022

[theroyalsandi]

Sweet moment between Prince Albert, the Duke of York, and his daughter Princess Elizabeth of York at their home in Piccadilly | 1932