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George VI was forced to buy from Edward the royal residences of Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House, as these were private properties and did not pass to him automatically. [60] Three days after his accession, on his 41st birthday, he invested his wife, the new queen consort , with the Order of the Garter .
[16] [17] The obverse of the coin, like other New Zealand coinage of the period, shows an uncrowned bust of George VI designed by Humphrey Paget. [18] Struck in .500 fineness , the 1949 crown was the sole circulating silver coin in New Zealand following the abandonment of silver coinage in favour of cupronickel in 1947.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon [b] (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI.
Sheila Chisholm was born on 9 September 1895 at Woollahra, Sydney, [2] youngest child and only daughter of grazier Harry Harry Chisholm and his wife Margaret, née Mackellar [3] who owned a family property "Wollogorang", the centre of the locality now called Wollogorang, near Breadalbane, New South Wales.
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