both georgey and edward were nothing more than inherited imperialists who got the handed down title of emperor of india from a jew prime minister......they were useless men who tried to justify their existence thru a few policy changes...what useless human beings they were!!...lol
both georgey and edward were nothing more than inherited imperialists who got the handed down title of emperor of india from a jew prime minister......they were useless men who tried to justify their existence thru a few policy changes...what useless human beings they were!!...lol
King George was the people's king and his family was revered. They walked through the bombed out streets and talked to the citizens of London and helped.They could have been killed. The King's Speech is a fair example of the royals being helped to connect with commoners. A man overcoming an affliction to speak to his people and become the king that he never expected to be.
King George VI was a good man, but as a southern African I honestly do not see why South Africans and Rhodesians fought for the Britain and the crown, as just 25 years later Rhodesia was to be betrayed by the selfsame country, and today South Africans' (whose grandfather's fought for Britain) cannot even visit the UK without acquiring a visa, while people from the Republic of Ireland can waltz in any time, even though they were to blow up British folk left, right and centre...makes no sense.
Poor Elizabeth that would of been hard for her to be proclaimed queen as well as loosing her father but of course she would of known since her childhood when her father became king that a day would come like this when she would be queen and succeed her father because she was his eldest child and his heir
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret stayed at Windsor Castle for most of the war, but the King and Queen remained in Buckingham Palace, and would tour the bomb ruins in London to show their solidarity with the people. As Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, said, the princesses would not leave without her, she would not leave without the King, and the King would never go. Whoever wrote that speech for her deserves a decoration!
@RichardElden George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was 56.
I am glad that more and more (especially young) people are learning more about King George VI. Good kings are forgotten and yet we always remember kings such as Henry VIII.
@324wilson Yes, he was. People who think that the modern monarchy is irrelevant should read the story of George VI and learn how a man of great character and purpose made the monarchy the anchor that held a nation together in its time of greatest peril.
The only one who went on a ship was Prince Philip- and that was because he was on active duty in the Navy. Queen-consort Elizabeth said "The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave." They wer einside Buckingham palace when it was bombed and the Queen said she was glad because she "could look the East End in the face. Hitler also called her the most dangerous woman in Europe.
king george shouldnt be forgived for what he did he took our money hes greedy we were just colonists at that time he made us pay for things like tea,stamps,sugar and i think thats all
Rubbish - why do you think you you do not have to pay for tea, stamps and sugar - everyone else does. The colonists who opposed King George III were a bunch of slave owners, tax dodgers and criminals who stole the property of loyalists and those who were not murdered were forced to go to Canada
@krissykicksass you'rethinking of the King George who was around in 1776. This George was the one from "The King's Speech", who lived in the first half of the 1900s. The main tip-off is that people didn't have film back in the days of the revolution, so that Geroge's funeral would not have been recorded and put on YouTube.
@krissykicksass thats not the right one this george lived in the 1900s the king george who ruled america was in the 1700s ove 200 years ago. That and you cant blame that king george he was like 16 years old
@TheCommunard Of course we know we're taxed, LMFAO!!!! But now we pay taxes legislated by men and women we have elected. The rallying cry concerning the tea, stamp, and sugar taxes did not have to do with unwillingness to pay taxes, but rather about these taxes being levied by British legislators without representatives from the American Colonies. That's the heart of the matter at the time of the Boston Tea Party: No taxation without representation. (CONTINUED)
@TheCommunard 2) Many current historians think the entire Revolution could have been delayed - IF the British had made it possible for the Colonies to have representation in Parliament. Many Americans don't realise how many Colonists stayed loyal to Britain and the King; the ties between us were that strong, as was demonstrated by the number of "Loyalists" who left for Canada post-Revolution. The Revolution did have the air of a civil war for many Colonists, on both sides.
@krissykicksass ffs man, get your history right, King George VI was a brave rock of which lead us through World War 2, please explain how he hurt colonists over a hundred years before he was born?
Where do you get your,(incorrect),information?! You may be thinking of the Duke of Windsor,formerly King Edward VIII & his wife,the Duchess of Windsor,formerly Mrs Wallace Simpson.They were both known 'sympathisers' of Hitler & the Nazis.Whe it was suggested the Royal Family leave the country,the Queen,(as in Queen Mother to be),famously said,"His majesty will never leave his people & I will never leave the King" There was never any intention that they would leave Britain.
@popazz1 The actual quote is traced to Queen Elizabeth, consort of George VI, when HM was asked if the Royal Family intended to send Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to the safety of Canada (as many upper-class parents were doing during the Blitz). Queen Elizabeth's reply was almost Churchillian: "The children cannot go without me; I cannot go without the King - and the King will NEVER leave." This is just one example of why Hitler called Queen Elizabeth,"the most dangerous woman in Europe"!
Isn't that what I said,lol? I did actually type,"the queen,(as in queen mother to be),.....I didn't quote verbatim the entire dialogue simply due to space constraints.
@popazz1 The actual quote is traced to Queen Elizabeth, consort of George VI, when HM was asked if the Royal Family intended to send Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to the safety of Canada (as many upper-class parents were doing during the Blitz). Queen Elizabeth's reply was almost Churchillian: "The children cannot go without me; I cannot go without the King - and the King will NEVER leave." This is just one example of why Hitler called Queen Elizabeth,"the most dangerous woman in Europe"!
@jojobug45 ...yes..she was....Queen Mary of Teck....and she did attend.....along with the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and Queen Elizabeth(Queen Mother to be).......
@jojobug45 Yes Queen Mary was still alive. She died shortly before The Queen's coronation. She certainly attended the arrival of The King's body in London. You have that famous photograph of 3 Queens veiled in black. So I suppose she was at the funeral.
@jojobug45 Yes, she was still alive but watched the funeral at her home with her son, the former King Edward VIII. The three women in black on the train platform were, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the new Queen, Elizabeth.
@jojobug45 yes, she was alive but watched it from her home with her son, the former Edward VIII. The three women in black were, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the new Queen, Elizabeth. Source is a BBC story.
@jojobug45 yes, she was alive but watched it from her home with her son, the former Edward VIII. The three women in black were, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the new Queen, Elizabeth. Source is a BBC story.
@jojobug45 yes, she was alive but watched it from her home with her son, the former Edward VIII. The three women in black were, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the new Queen, Elizabeth. Source is a BBC story.
@jojobug45 Yes she did attend the funeral ... I remember there is at least one photo that shows HM Queen Elizabeth II, HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and HM Queen Mary ... the first time that three Queens had been photographed together.
@sklig1975 famous queen mother speech when asked by a memmber of the press will she leave britain when germany was ready to invade..she said "The kids will not go if i wont go,i wont go if the king wont go and the king wont go"
@sklig1975 I hope your statement is not an indicator of what our education system is producing. If it is, God help us all! You need to read your history! @regszikora The Bush family did produce a hero: the first President Bush was shot down TWICE during WWII. And like the 2nd President Bush, President Clinton used the same tactics to get out of serving in the Vietnam War. Just saying......
@sklig1975 From what planet do you come from, The King may not have led the troops at the front, but he never wavered in what he could do for the people. His entire family that was old enough fought in the war, except the Duke of Windsor. The Princes Elizabeth heir to the thrown, joined up and served as much as she was allowed. Several relatives died in the war.
This sure does not sound like the Bush Family of the American War at present, that Bush lied about to have. Just saying.....
@nativetexancga I was making the point that the Royal Family fought in the War in the 1930's and 40's unlike the Bush Family of the last several years. This was in response to a critic of our former King
@sklig1975 I am a german and I say to you: You are wrong on every count. The King, Queen and their two daughters remained in Britain, gave strength and hope to the people and helped them to overcome the war of britain, WW II and the cruel and dark german dictatorship in europe. This King and Queen and the whole royal family gave an example of steadfastness to all people in Britain and Europe. If you are british: shame on you, if not, just try to study history. George VI was a great monarch. RIP
@chatham43 You are absolutely correct. The King, the Queen, and their daughters remained in England during the war, and by doing so, they boosted morale tremendously. The Queen famously said that the princesses would not leave without her, she would not leave without the King, and the King would never leave. Bravo!
@chatham43 I agree with you. He is completely wrong. Queen Mary, the King's mother, was alive. According to Michie's God Save The Queen, published after the King's death, but before Elizabeth II's coronation, Queen Mary viewed the funeral procession from her apt in Marlborough House as it passed by on the Mall. The Royal Family remained in Britain during the war. After a grim night of bombs, the people were reassured to awake and see the Royal Standard flying from Buckingham Palace.
During WW2, when London was being bombed intensively (and Buckingham Palace had already been hit), Churchill tried to persuade the Royal Family to evacuate. When he got nowhere with King George, he tried to impose on the Queen at least to send the Princesses to Canada.
She replied: "The children will not leave without me; I will not leave without the King. And the King will not leave."
Without World War II Britain would have retained its status as the world power. It would have been much better to restored Edward VIII as king and the British Empire could have become the Anglo-German Empire.
Broken Britain is a fucking disgrace, thanks to decades of socialist misrule beginning with Attlee. I'm glad George VI died of lung cancer at only 56.
@JuanMacready Each person is entitled to his own opinion, and I respect your right to have your opinion. However, to wish an early and painful death upon a man whom history has favorably viewed, or upon anyone save a dictator, seems evidence of a very deeply troubled person. I am not saying that you are one, but your choice of words in other posts certainly doesn't exactly portray you as someone who has "got it together."
@JuanMacready THEN GET OFF this video if you do not like monarchs; try to show some class and respect. Your Edward VIII gave up the throne for a love affair ; obviously duty to country was not a primary concern for him. This was also the man who with his wife met and admired Adolf Hitler. ENOUGH SAID.
@JuanMacready TRY READING for a change! He abdicated because the British People would not tolerate an American divorcee as their Queen Consort! King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the monarchs Britain needed especially with Nazi Germany's growing strength!
@fairgirl7 No, even Churchill admitted it would have been impossible for Edward to remain King. Baldwin forced him out because he wasn't prepared to be a constitutional monarch.
George VI was a piece of shit and I'm glad he died of lung cancer at only 56.
@JuanMacready You know I have heard of people airing their opinions; some quite vehemently. BUT, to actually write that you were glad that King George VI died of lung cancer at 56 is beyond the pale. YOU are without a soul OR a heart. Hopefully someone you love or care for will never go through the horror and pain of cancer. You are one VILE WORTHLESS creature! May His Britannic Majesty rest in peace and may God save us from the evil personified in you.
@fairgirl7 It's a great pity George V didn't die from his serious illness in November 1928, then the government could not have used the Wallis Simpson sideshow to get rid of Edward. Thus Britain would have remained a world superpower and the war would have been avoided.
@JuanMacready Do you really think Britain's monarchs run their governments? The Prime Minister with his majority party in the Parliament set the policy of the nation. It was not Britain that was itching for war but Nazi Germany.
@fairgirl7 Nobody had a majority which is why there was a National government. Edward VIII would have sent for Halifax instead of Churchill. We should have joined forces with Germany and the British Empire would have become the Anglo-German Empire.
@JuanMacready In WHAT WORLD do you live in?? Britain allied with Nazi Germany??? NOT AFTER WWI!!! Germany replaced France as Britain's eternal enemy. Who did you think in your fantasy world would have held the upper hand? Who was to be head of state? King George? Adolf Hitler??
@JuanMacready Sounds like a country in HELL!!!!!!!!!!!! No thanks!! In the end GOOD did triumph over EVIL and Hitler was destroyed and GREAT ancient Britain continued on her way governed by what is probably the best government ever conceived in the world. Constitutional monarchy with elected representative parliamentary government. THIS government has been more successful and long lasting that ANYTHING the Germans, French, Italians or Russians ever created!
@fairgirl7 Hitler was destroyed while the real enemy Stalin took over eastern Europe and acquired nuclear weapons. Britain was relegated to being a third world country, lost its empire and was forced to follow America in everything. This government is a joke, Cameron couldn't win a majority against the half-blind unelected autistic freak Brown. 8 million adults of working age do nothing except live on benefits.
@JuanMacready Hitler and Stalin were BOTH murdering vile savages. I hope both are in hell where they belong. Britain lost her empire and primacy because the Second World War crushed her financially; DUE to Hitler's desires to dominate Europe. The great enemy today is China. The Chinese have no morals or scruples, they will destroy any natural resource to get ahead. The will use espionage, trade wars OR military violence to achieve their goals.
@fairgirl7 We would have been much better off joining forces with Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. Then maybe this country wouldn't be a ruined welfare state now.
@JuanMacready Sorry Juan, I don't know what planet you inhabit but a world under Hitler would have meant the murder of Jewish People, gays, intellectuals, the mentally and physically handicapped. THAT is not a world I would want to live in.
@JuanMacready IT IS THE SAME MONSTROSITY!!!!!!! As for your great 30's I remember my parents coming out of the great depression. It was not easy; people were lucky to have a job and a roof over their head. The 60's were when women, minorities, gays and students against the Vietnam war decided that their generation would inherit a quite messed up world that was left to them and THEY would begin the changes. It was THIS generation that gave birth to the environmental movement.
yeah but what about hos brothers edward v111 was a nazi supporter, idiot and major embarassment and prince george duke o fkent even worse drug addict bisexual nazi supporter who was such a threat he had to be assasinated by the secret service.
The narrator's pronunciation sounds absurd to modern ears but it wouldn't have done at the time. Our language, amongst many other things has changed in the intervening years.
according to my grandmother (no longer here), my grandad who i never met was one of the soldiers carrying the coffin. shame i can't find out anymore information about it.
@theredraven Queen Mary was at the funeral. there is a very poiginet photo of three queems. Mary the mother of the Kind. Our dear queen mother the widow and our wonderful queen the daughter. sad and when we lose her then what?
The monarchy continues. It is the one constant in British history and there will always be someone to defend it. Even Cromwell was effectively a King in all but name and title.
George VI held firm when the Nazis held all of Europe in their grip. He led us through to victory. He was a man of calm and civilized outlook when the barbarians were at the gate. God bless good King George!
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both georgey and edward were nothing more than inherited imperialists who got the handed down title of emperor of india from a jew prime minister......they were useless men who tried to justify their existence thru a few policy changes...what useless human beings they were!!...lol
michelicnek 2 weeks ago
both georgey and edward were nothing more than inherited imperialists who got the handed down title of emperor of india from a jew prime minister......they were useless men who tried to justify their existence thru a few policy changes...what useless human beings they were!!...lol
michelicnek 2 weeks ago
How did he pass?
micahfishh 2 weeks ago
@micahfishh ...Cancer...
chatham43 2 weeks ago
HM the Queen, HM the Queen mother and HRH Princess Margaret are the absolute epitome of forlorness on that platform.
n0iwont 2 months ago
King George was the people's king and his family was revered. They walked through the bombed out streets and talked to the citizens of London and helped.They could have been killed. The King's Speech is a fair example of the royals being helped to connect with commoners. A man overcoming an affliction to speak to his people and become the king that he never expected to be.
mvies77 2 months ago
King George VI was a good man, but as a southern African I honestly do not see why South Africans and Rhodesians fought for the Britain and the crown, as just 25 years later Rhodesia was to be betrayed by the selfsame country, and today South Africans' (whose grandfather's fought for Britain) cannot even visit the UK without acquiring a visa, while people from the Republic of Ireland can waltz in any time, even though they were to blow up British folk left, right and centre...makes no sense.
MrAlban003 3 months ago
Poor Elizabeth that would of been hard for her to be proclaimed queen as well as loosing her father but of course she would of known since her childhood when her father became king that a day would come like this when she would be queen and succeed her father because she was his eldest child and his heir
QueenWaterLily 4 months ago
I'm not English, Brittish or anything but this moment still makes me cry.
Bonde1994 5 months ago
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret stayed at Windsor Castle for most of the war, but the King and Queen remained in Buckingham Palace, and would tour the bomb ruins in London to show their solidarity with the people. As Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, said, the princesses would not leave without her, she would not leave without the King, and the King would never go. Whoever wrote that speech for her deserves a decoration!
mindspring57 5 months ago 2
@RichardElden George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was 56.
robert3302 6 months ago
I am glad that more and more (especially young) people are learning more about King George VI. Good kings are forgotten and yet we always remember kings such as Henry VIII.
George VI was a GREAT king!
324wilson 6 months ago
@324wilson Yes, he was. People who think that the modern monarchy is irrelevant should read the story of George VI and learn how a man of great character and purpose made the monarchy the anchor that held a nation together in its time of greatest peril.
robert3302 6 months ago
@robert3302 Couldn't agree more. Some people (i.e. "RichardEdlen," probably the biggest troller online) will complain about everything.
324wilson 5 months ago
@sklig1975 That is one of the most moronic, ignorant and uneducated remarks I have ever read.
1AdrianR 6 months ago
@RichardElden He was 56.
robert3302 6 months ago
@sklig1975 Wow, it really shows when someone doesn't know their history. You might want to go back to school and/or read up on this.
hjac95 6 months ago
@sklig1975
The only one who went on a ship was Prince Philip- and that was because he was on active duty in the Navy. Queen-consort Elizabeth said "The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave." They wer einside Buckingham palace when it was bombed and the Queen said she was glad because she "could look the East End in the face. Hitler also called her the most dangerous woman in Europe.
Stop trying to tell lies.
Myles0Harcourt 6 months ago
RIP sweet King Gone but never forgotten.
honeybee7700 8 months ago
krissykicksass is thinking of King George III not King George VI.
88Willhur 9 months ago
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king george shouldnt be forgived for what he did he took our money hes greedy we were just colonists at that time he made us pay for things like tea,stamps,sugar and i think thats all
krissykicksass 10 months ago
@krissykicksass ...are you thinking about the right George...there were 5 others....
chatham43 10 months ago 22
@chatham43 lol oh that is too funny, this was like primary school stuff...
Mr1Marshy93 8 months ago
@krissykicksas
Rubbish
nvelope2003 9 months ago
@krissykicksas
Rubbish - why do you think you you do not have to pay for tea, stamps and sugar - everyone else does. The colonists who opposed King George III were a bunch of slave owners, tax dodgers and criminals who stole the property of loyalists and those who were not murdered were forced to go to Canada
nvelope2003 9 months ago
@krissykicksass you'rethinking of the King George who was around in 1776. This George was the one from "The King's Speech", who lived in the first half of the 1900s. The main tip-off is that people didn't have film back in the days of the revolution, so that Geroge's funeral would not have been recorded and put on YouTube.
...lolz?
ElliotWrightMusic 8 months ago
@krissykicksass This is George VI; you're thinking of George III. Learn your facts before you criticize.
archeryguy1121 7 months ago
@krissykicksass
Why are white Americans there in the first place? Oh yes, they were colonists.
Myles0Harcourt 6 months ago
@krissykicksass thats not the right one this george lived in the 1900s the king george who ruled america was in the 1700s ove 200 years ago. That and you cant blame that king george he was like 16 years old
kak672 6 months ago
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@krissykicksass woah your not very bright are you xD
HeatProtection 6 months ago
@krissykicksass typical ignorant dumb yank, btw get an education you're about 200 yrs off of the mark....
davevak 5 months ago
@krissykicksass
LOL. Wrong king george kiddo
therealfakeAlphabet 5 months ago
@krissykicksass You still pay for tea, stamps and sugar. You realise that right?
TheCommunard 4 months ago
@TheCommunard Of course we know we're taxed, LMFAO!!!! But now we pay taxes legislated by men and women we have elected. The rallying cry concerning the tea, stamp, and sugar taxes did not have to do with unwillingness to pay taxes, but rather about these taxes being levied by British legislators without representatives from the American Colonies. That's the heart of the matter at the time of the Boston Tea Party: No taxation without representation. (CONTINUED)
KittyAllChainedUp 3 months ago
@TheCommunard 2) Many current historians think the entire Revolution could have been delayed - IF the British had made it possible for the Colonies to have representation in Parliament. Many Americans don't realise how many Colonists stayed loyal to Britain and the King; the ties between us were that strong, as was demonstrated by the number of "Loyalists" who left for Canada post-Revolution. The Revolution did have the air of a civil war for many Colonists, on both sides.
KittyAllChainedUp 3 months ago
@KittyAllChainedUp And when Parliament offered representation, they ignored it.
Yes, I agree with you Kitty. There were more loyalists, it was the more rational position at the time.
TheCommunard 3 months ago
@krissykicksass look up your history, i think your thinking of one of the king george's from the georgian era, its not this king george
scousechick87 4 months ago
@krissykicksass ,
Wrong monarch!
popazz1 3 months ago
@krissykicksass ffs man, get your history right, King George VI was a brave rock of which lead us through World War 2, please explain how he hurt colonists over a hundred years before he was born?
uneducated Yank twit
UberVoltage 3 months ago
@krissykicksass Wow...way to represent America buddy...fucking moron.
hamartolos1 3 weeks ago
@sklig1975 haha you are hilarious
Nielsx1 10 months ago
excellent history of Britian thanks...
Robby334 11 months ago
Churchill had the best tribute to the King: "For Valour"
Dralcoffin 1 year ago
a great man.a noble man. long live the king
lynchi33 1 year ago 3
@sklig1975
It must be interesting to live in an alternate dimension
baraxor 1 year ago
@sklig1975 lmfao
Musashi862 1 year ago
@sklig1975 ,
Where do you get your,(incorrect),information?! You may be thinking of the Duke of Windsor,formerly King Edward VIII & his wife,the Duchess of Windsor,formerly Mrs Wallace Simpson.They were both known 'sympathisers' of Hitler & the Nazis.Whe it was suggested the Royal Family leave the country,the Queen,(as in Queen Mother to be),famously said,"His majesty will never leave his people & I will never leave the King" There was never any intention that they would leave Britain.
popazz1 1 year ago 8
@popazz1 The actual quote is traced to Queen Elizabeth, consort of George VI, when HM was asked if the Royal Family intended to send Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to the safety of Canada (as many upper-class parents were doing during the Blitz). Queen Elizabeth's reply was almost Churchillian: "The children cannot go without me; I cannot go without the King - and the King will NEVER leave." This is just one example of why Hitler called Queen Elizabeth,"the most dangerous woman in Europe"!
KittyAllChainedUp 3 months ago
@KittyAllChainedUp ,
Isn't that what I said,lol? I did actually type,"the queen,(as in queen mother to be),.....I didn't quote verbatim the entire dialogue simply due to space constraints.
popazz1 3 months ago
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@popazz1 The actual quote is traced to Queen Elizabeth, consort of George VI, when HM was asked if the Royal Family intended to send Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to the safety of Canada (as many upper-class parents were doing during the Blitz). Queen Elizabeth's reply was almost Churchillian: "The children cannot go without me; I cannot go without the King - and the King will NEVER leave." This is just one example of why Hitler called Queen Elizabeth,"the most dangerous woman in Europe"!
KittyAllChainedUp 3 months ago
@sklig1975 Proof?
MrMKH2010 1 year ago
The narrator sure has an interesting way of speaking. Like the way he rolls his r's.
szqsk8 1 year ago
Can someone answer me this: was the king's mother still alive? She was Queen Mary right? if she was alive, did she attend her son's funeral? thanks.
jojobug45 1 year ago 6
@jojobug45 ...yes..she was....Queen Mary of Teck....and she did attend.....along with the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and Queen Elizabeth(Queen Mother to be).......
chatham43 1 year ago 2
@chatham43 Slight correction, mate: QUEEN Elizabeth. At that point she was The Queen. Otherwise, you are correct.
grancazzino 3 months ago
@chatham43
There has never been a member of the British Royal Family with the name and title of Queen Mary of Teck.
NemoFuitHic 4 weeks ago
@chatham43 Actually she was Princess May of Teck, but HM Queen Mary - at this point she was the Dowager Queen.
taffyboy1971 5 hours ago
@jojobug45 Queen Mary died about a year later, shortly before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
933moldowan 1 year ago
@jojobug45 Yes Queen Mary was still alive. She died shortly before The Queen's coronation. She certainly attended the arrival of The King's body in London. You have that famous photograph of 3 Queens veiled in black. So I suppose she was at the funeral.
mc0558 1 year ago
@jojobug45 Yes, she was still alive but watched the funeral at her home with her son, the former King Edward VIII. The three women in black on the train platform were, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the new Queen, Elizabeth.
clonakiltylass 1 year ago
@jojobug45 yes, she was alive but watched it from her home with her son, the former Edward VIII. The three women in black were, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the new Queen, Elizabeth. Source is a BBC story.
clonakiltylass 1 year ago
@jojobug45 yes, she was alive but watched it from her home with her son, the former Edward VIII. The three women in black were, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the new Queen, Elizabeth. Source is a BBC story.
clonakiltylass 1 year ago
@jojobug45 yes, she was alive but watched it from her home with her son, the former Edward VIII. The three women in black were, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the new Queen, Elizabeth. Source is a BBC story.
clonakiltylass 1 year ago
@jojobug45 At 6min 8sec it says 3 queens were present: queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and Queen Mary, so the answer is yes.
Iampa1963 1 year ago
@jojobug45 Yes she did attend the funeral ... I remember there is at least one photo that shows HM Queen Elizabeth II, HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and HM Queen Mary ... the first time that three Queens had been photographed together.
AdmiralW238 1 month ago
@sklig1975 famous queen mother speech when asked by a memmber of the press will she leave britain when germany was ready to invade..she said "The kids will not go if i wont go,i wont go if the king wont go and the king wont go"
Doulea82 1 year ago
@sklig1975 You really need to read your history again. And if you are product of our education system, God help us all.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor met Hitler, AFTER he abdicated for "the love of a woman".
The King, Queen and Pricesses stayed in England by CHOICE. The King and Queen were an inspiration to the British people.
nativetexancga 1 year ago
@sklig1975 I hope your statement is not an indicator of what our education system is producing. If it is, God help us all! You need to read your history! @regszikora The Bush family did produce a hero: the first President Bush was shot down TWICE during WWII. And like the 2nd President Bush, President Clinton used the same tactics to get out of serving in the Vietnam War. Just saying......
nativetexancga 1 year ago
@sklig1975 From what planet do you come from, The King may not have led the troops at the front, but he never wavered in what he could do for the people. His entire family that was old enough fought in the war, except the Duke of Windsor. The Princes Elizabeth heir to the thrown, joined up and served as much as she was allowed. Several relatives died in the war.
This sure does not sound like the Bush Family of the American War at present, that Bush lied about to have. Just saying.....
regszikora 1 year ago
@regszikora I'm not sure how the Bush Family has anything to do with King George and family, but oh well.
nativetexancga 1 year ago
@nativetexancga I was making the point that the Royal Family fought in the War in the 1930's and 40's unlike the Bush Family of the last several years. This was in response to a critic of our former King
regszikora 1 year ago
@sklig1975 I am a german and I say to you: You are wrong on every count. The King, Queen and their two daughters remained in Britain, gave strength and hope to the people and helped them to overcome the war of britain, WW II and the cruel and dark german dictatorship in europe. This King and Queen and the whole royal family gave an example of steadfastness to all people in Britain and Europe. If you are british: shame on you, if not, just try to study history. George VI was a great monarch. RIP
hugoschneckerich59 1 year ago
An amazing king I'm certain.
bjr43 1 year ago
wow.....you know things 200 million people don't know!
4521556 1 year ago
What hyper-world are you living in friend?
trackieben 1 year ago
@sklig1975 ...wrong on every count.....but dont let me stop you........
chatham43 1 year ago 36
@chatham43 You are absolutely correct. The King, the Queen, and their daughters remained in England during the war, and by doing so, they boosted morale tremendously. The Queen famously said that the princesses would not leave without her, she would not leave without the King, and the King would never leave. Bravo!
mindspring57 1 year ago
@chatham43 wined and dined b4 war is commen in talking peace.
narsplace 1 year ago
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@chatham43 And what is your beef?
mc0558 1 year ago
@chatham43 I agree with you. He is completely wrong. Queen Mary, the King's mother, was alive. According to Michie's God Save The Queen, published after the King's death, but before Elizabeth II's coronation, Queen Mary viewed the funeral procession from her apt in Marlborough House as it passed by on the Mall. The Royal Family remained in Britain during the war. After a grim night of bombs, the people were reassured to awake and see the Royal Standard flying from Buckingham Palace.
mindspring57 5 months ago
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Where'd you get ahold of this?
bjr43 1 year ago
Where'd you get ahold of this?
bjr43 1 year ago
During WW2, when London was being bombed intensively (and Buckingham Palace had already been hit), Churchill tried to persuade the Royal Family to evacuate. When he got nowhere with King George, he tried to impose on the Queen at least to send the Princesses to Canada.
She replied: "The children will not leave without me; I will not leave without the King. And the King will not leave."
flygweilo 1 year ago
We should never have been at war at all.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready In WW2? You feel we had a choice?
flygweilo 1 year ago
Yup.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready How so?
flygweilo 1 year ago
By joining forces with Germany, Italy and Spain and then invading Russia. Stalin and Communism were the real threat.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Yes ... I wondered if your answer might not be something like that.
Much as Stalin is to be despised for all he did, I cannot take such a view seriously, given the facts.
flygweilo 1 year ago
Without World War II Britain would have retained its status as the world power. It would have been much better to restored Edward VIII as king and the British Empire could have become the Anglo-German Empire.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Oh dear God.
flygweilo 1 year ago
Better than the socilaist welfarist cunthole we have now.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready ?
flygweilo 1 year ago
@JuanMacready I'm sorry - I've just seen your age.
Everything is now explained.
flygweilo 1 year ago
Broken Britain is a fucking disgrace, thanks to decades of socialist misrule beginning with Attlee. I'm glad George VI died of lung cancer at only 56.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Each person is entitled to his own opinion, and I respect your right to have your opinion. However, to wish an early and painful death upon a man whom history has favorably viewed, or upon anyone save a dictator, seems evidence of a very deeply troubled person. I am not saying that you are one, but your choice of words in other posts certainly doesn't exactly portray you as someone who has "got it together."
JustJim70118 1 year ago
@JustJim70118 George VI was a useless piece of shit, just like every British monarch since William IV with the single exception of Edward VIII.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready THEN GET OFF this video if you do not like monarchs; try to show some class and respect. Your Edward VIII gave up the throne for a love affair ; obviously duty to country was not a primary concern for him. This was also the man who with his wife met and admired Adolf Hitler. ENOUGH SAID.
fairgirl7 1 year ago
@fairgirl7 Edward VIII was forced out because he wasn't prepared to be a powerless irrelevance like his wanker father.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready TRY READING for a change! He abdicated because the British People would not tolerate an American divorcee as their Queen Consort! King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were the monarchs Britain needed especially with Nazi Germany's growing strength!
fairgirl7 1 year ago
@fairgirl7 No, even Churchill admitted it would have been impossible for Edward to remain King. Baldwin forced him out because he wasn't prepared to be a constitutional monarch.
George VI was a piece of shit and I'm glad he died of lung cancer at only 56.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready You know I have heard of people airing their opinions; some quite vehemently. BUT, to actually write that you were glad that King George VI died of lung cancer at 56 is beyond the pale. YOU are without a soul OR a heart. Hopefully someone you love or care for will never go through the horror and pain of cancer. You are one VILE WORTHLESS creature! May His Britannic Majesty rest in peace and may God save us from the evil personified in you.
fairgirl7 1 year ago
@fairgirl7 You do know that he smoked 40 cigarettes a day?
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready I DON'T CARE IF HE SMOKED 100 AN HOUR!! Your comment was beyond rude, vile and tasteless. IT WAS OBSCENE!
fairgirl7 1 year ago
@fairgirl7 It's a great pity George V didn't die from his serious illness in November 1928, then the government could not have used the Wallis Simpson sideshow to get rid of Edward. Thus Britain would have remained a world superpower and the war would have been avoided.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Do you really think Britain's monarchs run their governments? The Prime Minister with his majority party in the Parliament set the policy of the nation. It was not Britain that was itching for war but Nazi Germany.
fairgirl7 1 year ago
@fairgirl7 Nobody had a majority which is why there was a National government. Edward VIII would have sent for Halifax instead of Churchill. We should have joined forces with Germany and the British Empire would have become the Anglo-German Empire.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready In WHAT WORLD do you live in?? Britain allied with Nazi Germany??? NOT AFTER WWI!!! Germany replaced France as Britain's eternal enemy. Who did you think in your fantasy world would have held the upper hand? Who was to be head of state? King George? Adolf Hitler??
fairgirl7 1 year ago
@fairgirl7 King Edward VIII could have been reinstated as a puppet monarch with the laws being made by the Reichstag.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Sounds like a country in HELL!!!!!!!!!!!! No thanks!! In the end GOOD did triumph over EVIL and Hitler was destroyed and GREAT ancient Britain continued on her way governed by what is probably the best government ever conceived in the world. Constitutional monarchy with elected representative parliamentary government. THIS government has been more successful and long lasting that ANYTHING the Germans, French, Italians or Russians ever created!
fairgirl7 1 year ago
@fairgirl7 Hitler was destroyed while the real enemy Stalin took over eastern Europe and acquired nuclear weapons. Britain was relegated to being a third world country, lost its empire and was forced to follow America in everything. This government is a joke, Cameron couldn't win a majority against the half-blind unelected autistic freak Brown. 8 million adults of working age do nothing except live on benefits.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Hitler and Stalin were BOTH murdering vile savages. I hope both are in hell where they belong. Britain lost her empire and primacy because the Second World War crushed her financially; DUE to Hitler's desires to dominate Europe. The great enemy today is China. The Chinese have no morals or scruples, they will destroy any natural resource to get ahead. The will use espionage, trade wars OR military violence to achieve their goals.
fairgirl7 1 year ago
@fairgirl7 We would have been much better off joining forces with Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. Then maybe this country wouldn't be a ruined welfare state now.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready Sorry Juan, I don't know what planet you inhabit but a world under Hitler would have meant the murder of Jewish People, gays, intellectuals, the mentally and physically handicapped. THAT is not a world I would want to live in.
fairgirl7 1 year ago 2
@fairgirl7 I prefer the term eradicate to murder. Life was certainly much better in the 1930s before that evil decade the 1960s.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready IT IS THE SAME MONSTROSITY!!!!!!! As for your great 30's I remember my parents coming out of the great depression. It was not easy; people were lucky to have a job and a roof over their head. The 60's were when women, minorities, gays and students against the Vietnam war decided that their generation would inherit a quite messed up world that was left to them and THEY would begin the changes. It was THIS generation that gave birth to the environmental movement.
fairgirl7 1 year ago
@JuanMacready No, we wouldn't be better off. We'd be dead.
nativetexancga 1 year ago
@nativetexancga No we wouldn't because I would have been like Marshal Petain.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready WOW, you've certainly got some interesting perspectives. Are you considering running for office?
JustJim70118 1 year ago
Queen Mary was also dying of lung cancer here.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
George VI was way too young.
tktru 1 year ago
yeah but what about hos brothers edward v111 was a nazi supporter, idiot and major embarassment and prince george duke o fkent even worse drug addict bisexual nazi supporter who was such a threat he had to be assasinated by the secret service.
Edward1312 1 year ago
@Edward1312 No need to bring sexuality into this.
JustJim70118 1 year ago
The narrator's pronunciation sounds absurd to modern ears but it wouldn't have done at the time. Our language, amongst many other things has changed in the intervening years.
broomybank 2 years ago
according to my grandmother (no longer here), my grandad who i never met was one of the soldiers carrying the coffin. shame i can't find out anymore information about it.
ironball84 2 years ago 2
where is queen Mary!!
KURarEp 2 years ago
She was quite old at this point so I imagine she may have been too frail for the journey although she was at the Coronation IIRC.
theredraven 2 years ago
@theredraven Queen Mary was at the funeral. there is a very poiginet photo of three queems. Mary the mother of the Kind. Our dear queen mother the widow and our wonderful queen the daughter. sad and when we lose her then what?
kyldy 1 year ago
@kyldy What then?
The monarchy continues. It is the one constant in British history and there will always be someone to defend it. Even Cromwell was effectively a King in all but name and title.
theredraven 1 year ago 2
@kyldy I've seen that photo, it is quite remarkable
MattAbel24 1 year ago
Suwat, you need to have your head examined.
mc0558 2 years ago
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Wow. A bit over-written, huh?
mgeek1 2 years ago
This is of course London smog before coal fires were banned and the skys cleared.
mc0558 2 years ago
George VI held firm when the Nazis held all of Europe in their grip. He led us through to victory. He was a man of calm and civilized outlook when the barbarians were at the gate. God bless good King George!
mc0558 2 years ago 40
This is a wonderful thing to have uploaded. It's amazing that HM The Queen has been Queen ever since. Long Live The Queen.
antidisenstable 2 years ago 2