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King george the 6th biography of barack.
As the Public Record Office releases more documents concerning the abdication of King Edward VIII, BBC News Online looks at the life of his brother who took over the throne, becoming King George VI.
George VI neither desired, nor ever expected, to become King.
A diffident, even painfully shy, figure who battled throughout his life with a nervous stammer, George VI was the unlikeliest of sovereigns, thrust on to the throne when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936.
Besides mastering the art of kingship and rebuilding public respect for the monarchy following the shock of the abdication he had, within three years, to lead his nation and empire into a war which became a fight for its very survival.
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Albert Frederick Arthur George was born on 14 December 1895. It was not an auspicious date, being the anniversary of the death of his great-grandfather, Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria.
The young Prince Albert attended naval college |