He was succeeded by his next younger brother, George VI. Before his accession, George had been known as Prince Albert, Duke of York; his regnal name was chosen in honour of his late father. In 1923, he had married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. On the following day Their Majesties drove in an open carriage through the streets of London, which the King described as “a sight which I am sure could never be seen in any other country in the world.” On 24 June they attended a Naval Fleet Review at Spithead and on 29 June a Thanksgiving Service at St Paul’s Cathedral.

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Weisbrode, Kenneth (2013), Churchill and the King, New York: Viking, pp. 107, 117–118, 148, 154–155, 166. ISBN 978-0670025763. I was brought home from Switzerland once more and my mother took me to a rehearsal at the Abbey at which a thousand people were present. The next day there was another rehearsal, and then a garden party for seven thousand on a perfect summer day, with lots of overseas guests, who had come for the Coronation, many wearing colourful national dress. We all went to a ball at Hampton Court, and the next day I had to go with my uncle Gloucester to London Airport to meet yet more distinguished guests. London Declaration 1949 (PDF), Commonwealth Secretariat, archived (PDF) from the original on 27 September 2012 , retrieved 2 April 2013 Royal Connections", Aberdeen Medico-Chirugical Society, archived from the original on 17 January 2019 , retrieved 16 January 2019 The Ceremonies to Be Observed at the Royal Coronation of Their Most Excellent Majesties King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth in the Abbey Church of Westminster on Wednesday, the 12th day of May 1In 1940, Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister, though personally George would have preferred to appoint Lord Halifax. [82] After the King's initial dismay over Churchill's appointment of Lord Beaverbrook to the Cabinet, he and Churchill developed "the closest personal relationship in modern British history between a monarch and a Prime Minister". [83] Every Tuesday for four and a half years from September 1940, the two men met privately for lunch to discuss the war in secret and with frankness. [84] George related much of what the two discussed in his diary, which is the only extant first-hand account of these conversations. [85] Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary and was born on 14th December 1895 on the Sandringham estate. On the abdication of his brother Edward VIII in December 1936 he was proclaimed King and took one of his middle names, George, on succeeding to the throne. Marriage Arnold-Forster, Mark (1983) [1973], The World at War, London: Thames Methuen, p.303, ISBN 978-0-423-00680-3

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Bousfield, Arthur; Toffoli, Garry (1989), Royal Spring: The Royal Tour of 1939 and the Queen Mother in Canada, Toronto: Dundurn Press, pp.60, 66, ISBN 978-1-55002-065-6, archived from the original on 18 March 2021 , retrieved 21 September 2020 I can only say my heart is very full when this evening I say – God bless & guide & keep your Majesties always. I felt that His Presence was around you this morning – His help assured to you in the Sacraments of Anointing and Communion. He will not fail you in the days to come. Believe me to be Sir and Madam, Your Majesties devoted and affectionate Servant.In 1911, standards of the Dominions—autonomous communities of the British Empire—were borne during the procession. But, after the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which established legislative equality between the Dominions and the United Kingdom, the actual service and coronation rite needed to be updated to reflect this change in political power within the Empire, which itself was beginning to be known as the Commonwealth. Furthermore, the fact that the service was an Anglican rite excluded other faiths and denominations; in 1937, several Dominions had premiers who were Catholic and, by that time, laws which previously excluded people from public office on religious grounds had been repealed. [13] The Coronation Committee altered the rite to reflect this change; the King now swore to maintain "the Protestant Reformed Religion only as established by law in the United Kingdom." [13] During Edward VIII's reign, a committee was established and chaired by the Duke of York to investigate how colonial representatives might be included within the ceremony. The committee failed, though, to implement any changes, except to the Coronation Oath. This was the first amendment to the oath since the coronation of King William III and Queen Mary II in 1689. [14] On the evening of her Coronation on 2 June 1953, The Queen made a radio broadcast reflecting on the events of the day, thanking the public for their support and promising to serve the Nation. Weir, Alison (1996). Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy, Revised Edition. London: Random House. ISBN 978-0-7126-7448-5. Eye witnesses recalled that the overall impression inside the Abbey was colour everywhere, with blue and gold hangings and carpets and crimson robes and uniforms. Queen Mary, with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, attended, watching from the Royal Gallery. Slight mishaps did occur during the service. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, who performed the ceremony thought the Dean had given him St Edward's Crown the wrong way round, a bishop stepped on the King's train and another put his thumb over the words of the oath when the King was about to read it. Burial