LONDON, Feb. 6, 1952 (UP)-King George VI died peacefully in his sleep ... He had reigned through 15 of Britain's most momentous years. He succeeded to the throne Dec 11, 1936, when his brother ...
On Jan. 29, 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King George III, who lost the American colonies, died at the age of 82.
King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child. A disobedient child, of course, must be punished.
Dr. Andrew Thompson is a consultant to the series The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, and author of the biography George II: King and Elector ...
Should none of the Waleses become the next monarch of Great Britain, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, will become the king. As the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York ...
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain ... written by George Mason, and a 1774 pamphlet by Pennsylvanian James Wilson.
with Bravemansgame carrying his colours to victory in the King George in 2022, while his most recent winner came last Friday when the Dan Skelton-trained Panic Attack landed a valuable mares' handicap ...
Later notable events in the King's reign included his appointment of Ramsay Macdonald as Britain's first Labour Prime Minister in 1924, the General Strike of 1926, and the economic depression of the ...