The King and Queen worked tirelessly throughout, and when the war had ended the King supported proposals for the burial of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey ... His widow, Queen Mary, broke a ...
The future King George VI – then known as Prince Albert – served in the First World War, an experience that would later influence his leadership during World War II. As a young naval officer, he ...
When the Duke of York (later King George VI) married Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon in the Abbey in 1923 as she left she laid her wedding bouquet on the grave as a mark of respect (she had lost a brother ...
The antique necklace, which was also worn at the coronations of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, is set to go under the gavel at Sotheby's Geneva on November 13, with bids accepted from next ...
Burial within a church was typically saved ... Elizabeth's stone was set into the floor of the King George VI Memorial Chapel in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle."The way we relate to death ...