George VI Windsor King Of England 1
Another name for George was Albert Frederick Arthur George. General Notes: The second son of the future king George V, the prince served in the Royal Navy (1913-17), the Royal Naval Air Service (1917-19), and the Royal Air Force (1919) and then attended Trinity College, Cambridge (1919-20). On June 3, 1920, he was created Duke of York. He sponsored the annual Duke of York's Camp (1921-39), at which equal numbers of public (private) school boys and boys from industrial areas spent a week together as his guests. On April 26, 1923, he was married to Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, youngest daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. They had two children: Princess Elizabeth (afterward Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret (afterward Countess of Snowdon). 6 George married Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon Lady on 26 Apr 1923. (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon Lady was born on 4 Aug 1900 in London, England and was christened on 23 Sep 1900.) |