George VI / King George VI / Albert Frederick Arthur George / History #GeorgeVI #Historical

@ TELEGRAM: “KEEP ONE EYE ON THE FUTURE. THE DISTANT FUTURE.“ GEORGE VI GEORGE VI WAS KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE DOMINIONS OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH FROM 11 DECEMBER 1936 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1952. HE WAS CONCURRENTLY THE LAST EMPEROR OF INDIA UNTIL AUGUST 1947, WHEN THE BRITISH RAJ WAS DISSOLVED. IN SEPTEMBER 1939, THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND MOST COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES—BUT NOT IRELAND—DECLARED WAR ON NAZI GERMANY. WAR WITH THE KINGDOM OF ITALY AND THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN FOLLOWED IN 1940 AND 1941, RESPECTIVELY. GEORGE VI WAS SEEN AS SHARING THE HARDSHIPS OF THE COMMON PEOPLE AND HIS POPULARITY SOARED. BUCKINGHAM PALACE WAS BOMBED DURING THE BLITZ WHILE THE KING AND QUEEN WERE THERE, AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER THE DUKE OF KENT WAS KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE. GEORGE BECAME KNOWN AS A SYMBOL OF BRITISH DETERMINATION TO WIN THE WAR. BRITAIN AND ITS ALLIES WERE VICTORIOUS IN 1945, BUT THE BRITISH EMPIRE DECLINED. IRELAND HAD LARGELY BROKEN AWAY, FOLLOWED BY THE INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN IN 1947. GEORGE RELINQUISHED THE TITLE OF EMPEROR OF INDIA IN JUNE 1948 AND INSTEAD ADOPTED THE NEW TITLE OF HEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH. HE WAS BESET BY SMOKING-RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE LATER YEARS OF HIS REIGN AND DIED OF A CORONARY THROMBOSIS IN 1952. HE WAS SUCCEEDED BY HIS ELDER DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH II. 00:00 GEORGE VI 02:14 HISTORY / EARLY REIGN 03:28 SECOND WORLD WAR 06:30 EMPIRE TO COMMONWEALTH 07:00 LEGACY MANY IMAGES IN THIS VIDEO ARE IMAGES IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. I USE TO THESE IMAGES FOR VIDEOS. #george6 #historyandphilosophy #innabesedina #history #selfdevelopment #selfeducation #education #kinggeorge6 #kinggeorgevi #georgevi #historyofbritain #historyoftheunitedkingdom #knowledge #studying #historyfacts #historical #historicalbackground #historyimportantlesson