Richard Ellis, Duke and Duchess of York (later George VI and Queen Elizabeth) on board ship, Malta 1927-1928
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Richard Ellis, Photograph of the Duke and Duchess of York (later George VI and Queen Elizabeth) on board ship, Malta: the Duke is wearing summer naval dress. Circa 1927-1928
George VI (1895–1952), king of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952. The second son of the future king George V, the prince served in the Royal Navy (1913–17), the Royal Naval Air Service (1917–19), and the Royal Air Force (1919) and then attended Trinity College, Cambridge (1919–20). On June 3, 1920, he was created duke of York. He sponsored the annual Duke of York’s Camp (1921–39), at which equal numbers of public (private) school boys and boys from industrial areas spent a week together as his guests. On April 26, 1923, he married Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, youngest daughter of the 14th earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. They had two children: Princess Elizabeth (afterward Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret (later countess of Snowdon).
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