A colleague once asked me whether there was anything worth knowing about George II, a figure who does not even feature in that immortal guide to British history 1066 and All That other than that ...

King George VI, was dead.Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was in Mombasa, Kenya, when she learned she was to be Britain's new sovereign ruler, Queen Elizabeth II. She wept at the news. King George ...

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George II was the only son of George I and Sophia and was born at Herrenhausen in Hanover, Germany, on 30th October 1683. In 1705 he was naturalized an English subject and succeeded his father as king ...

George V — King George VI's father and Queen Elizabeth II's grandfather — died on Jan. 20, 1936. Eight days later, George V was interred at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. King George VI ...

George II, chiefly remembered for his army's brutal treatment of the Scots (for which God Save the King was composed). George III lost the American colonies, and his faculties. George IV ...

While the reigns of George I and II had been marked by a royal detachment from the administration of American colonies, King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw ...