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==Life==
 
==Life==
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He was born on December 14, 1895 as Albert Frederick Arthur George, the second son of King [[George V]] and his consort, Queen Victoria Mary. He was not trained to be king and always stood in the shadow of his charismatic older brother Edward, the [[Prince of Wales]]. George was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne and progressed to the [[Royal Navy|Royal Naval]] College at Dartmouth. In 1915 during [[World War I]] he became a midshipman on H. M. S. ''Collingwood'', in which he served as a sublieutenant in charge of a gun crew during the [[Battle of Jutland]] in 1916. In March 1918 he was transferred to the naval branch of the [[Royal Air Force]] and served as a pilot on the western front, rising to the rank of wing commander. After the war he spent a year studying history and economics at Trinity College, [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. In 1920 he was created Duke of York, and on April 26, 1923, he married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, Earl of Strathmore and wife, Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck; they had two children, Princess Elizabeth, (b. 1926), who was to become Queen [[Elizabeth II]], and Princess Margaret Rose (1930-2002). In 1924-1925 the duke and duchess visited Uganda and the Sudan, and in 1927, Australia and New Zealand.
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He was born on December 14, 1895, as Albert Frederick Arthur George, the second son of King [[George V]] and his consort, Queen Mary. He was not trained to be king and always stood in the shadow of his charismatic older brother Edward, the [[Prince of Wales]]. George was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and progressed to the [[Royal Navy|Royal Naval]] College at Dartmouth. In 1915 during [[World War I]] he became a midshipman on HMS ''Collingwood'', in which he served as a sublieutenant in charge of a gun crew during the [[Battle of Jutland]] in 1916. In March 1918 he was transferred to the naval branch of the [[Royal Air Force]] and served as a pilot on the western front, rising to the rank of wing commander. After the war he spent a year studying history and economics at Trinity College, [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. In 1920 he was created Duke of York, and on April 26, 1923, he married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, Earl of Strathmore, and Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck. They had two children, Princess Elizabeth (b. 1926), who was to become Queen [[Elizabeth II]], and Princess Margaret Rose (1930-2002). In 1924-1925 the duke and duchess visited Uganda and the Sudan, and in 1927, Australia and New Zealand.
    
==King==
 
==King==
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