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George VI
noun
- 1895–1952, king of England 1936–1952 (second son of George V; brother of Edward VIII).
George VI
noun
- George VI18951952MBritishPOLITICS: hereditary ruler 1895–1952, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936–52) and emperor of India (1936–47). The second son of George V, he succeeded to the throne after the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII
Example Sentences
King George VI begged him to consider what a blow it would be to England should the Belfast be hit by a chance bomb.
For a story about the coronation of King George VI in 1935, Cartier-Bresson rather notably took zero pictures of the monarch.
It was made by society jewelers Garrard, who refashioned the gems from a pendant she was given by her husband, George VI.
The day before his wedding, King George VI titled his future son-in-law Philip Duke of Edinburgh.
Years later, George VI happened on a detailed record of a John Brown séance that had somehow managed to survive.
Number 37 was an old concrete-and-steel structure of the George VI period, faced with a veneer of red brick.
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