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George VI, born December 14, 1895, son of King George V and Queen Mary, daughter of the late Duke of Teck; succeeded to the crown on the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, December 10, 1936, and proclaimed King on December 12, 1936; married Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (born, August 4, 1900), April 26, 1923.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1947). The British Commonwealth and Empire. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270763_1
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