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The body of George VI was moved from the Royal Vault on 26 March 1969 and reinterred in the newly-built King George VI Memorial Chapel. [20] His daughter, Princess Margaret, died on 9 February 2002 and, in accordance with her wishes, a private funeral was held at St George's Chapel.
He was interred initially in the Royal Vault until he was transferred to the King George VI Memorial Chapel inside St George's on 26 March 1969. [118] In 2002, fifty years after his death, the remains of his widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the ashes of his younger daughter, Princess Margaret, who both died that year, were interred ...
Bed-ridden by bronchitis; died of a myocardial infarction: George VI: House of Windsor 14 December 1895 1936–1952 6 February 1952 Had lung cancer and arteriosclerosis due to heavy cigarette smoking; died in his sleep of a coronary thrombosis: Edward VIII: 23 June 1894 1936 28 May 1972 Throat cancer: Elizabeth II: 21 April 1926 1952–2022 8 ...
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The Royal Family did not specify the form of cancer but he is still undergoing regular treatment and has postponed ... King George VI. On February 6 1952, King George VI died in the middle of the ...
Britain's King Charles III will resume public duties for the first time since his cancer diagnosis as ... Charles’ grandfather King George VI died from a lung cancer that was kept from the ...
George VI died in his sleep on 6 February 1952 while Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh were in Kenya on a Commonwealth tour, and with George's death his daughter immediately became Queen Elizabeth II. [90]
The tiny King George VI Memorial Chapel houses the remains of the Queen’s father George VI, her mother the Queen Mother and sister Princess Margaret. ... George VI died in 1952, but was first ...