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The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.
* Fleming was knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by king George VI in 1944.
The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.
A financial settlement was devised, under which Balmoral and Sandringham passed to his brother, George VI.
In horse racing, there is the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey.
It was said that when Attlee visited King George VI at Buckingham Palace to kiss hands, the notoriously laconic Attlee and the notoriously tongue-tied George VI stood for some minutes in silence before Attlee finally volunteered the remark " I've won the election.
Attlee meeting King George VI of the United Kingdom | George VI after Labour's 1945 election victory.
He was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath by King George VI of the United Kingdom in 1942.
* 1895 – King George VI of the United Kingdom ( d. 1952 )
That title was relinquished by the last Kaisar-i-Hind George VI when India was granted independence on 15 August 1947.
Mountbatten was appointed a Personal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George VI on 23 June 1936, and, having joined the Naval Air Division of the Admiralty in July 1936, he attended the coronation of King George VI in May 1937.
Mountbatten attended the funeral of King George VI in June 1952 and, having been promoted to the substantive rank of full admiral on 27 February 1953, he attended the coronation of the Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953.
Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.
* 1952 – King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
* 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI.

George and right
Theresa had seen him through the right college, into the right fraternity, and though pursued by various girls and various mammas of girls, safely married to the right sort, however much in the early years of that match his wife, Anne, had not seemed to understand poor George.
Shortly after the Thomas confirmation hearings, President George H. W. Bush dropped his opposition to a bill giving harassment victims the right to seek federal damage awards, back pay and reinstatement, and the law was passed by Congress.
The " United Trinity " statue of Charlton ( right ) alongside Denis Law ( centre ) and George Best ( left ) outside Old Trafford
In 1757 King George II gave the Old Royal Library and with it the right to a copy of every book published in the country, thereby ensuring that the Museum's library would expand indefinitely.
Icon of St. Ephrem ( right ) together with St. George ( top ) and St. John Damascene.
The punter, with an impromptu dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens, who ran 70 yards for a touchdown.
" His output does not fit into conventional political classification, including attacks on feminism ( generally the proviso of the right ), George W. Bush ( generally the proviso of the left ), Israel ( though not of Jews in general ), and evolution ( generally the proviso of religious fundamentalists ).
Laura Bush with husband Governor George W. ( right ) and father-in-law George H. W. ( left ) at the dedication of the George Bush Presidential Library, 1997
A cameo appearance by Executive Producer George Harrison ( right )
New inscriptions painted in white on the left and right edges of the slab stated that it was " Captured in Egypt by the British Army in 1801 " and " Presented by King George III ".
He has positioned Lafayette to the right of three pedestals: one has a bust of Benjamin Franklin, another of George Washington, and the third seems reserved for Lafayette.
The Declaration justified the independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against King George III, and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of revolution.
If I was George Michael right about now, I'd be shitting myself ") or current events ( a 2000 issue remarked " The Government spent £ 850 million on the Millennium Bug, and the only thing that crashes is Q < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > out of the Bond films ").
After viewing Leigh's screen test, Selznick noted that " she doesn't seem right as to sincerity or age or innocence ", a view shared by Hitchcock and Leigh's mentor, George Cukor.
Arafat with Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish ( center ) and PFLP leader George Habash ( right ) in Syria, 1980
" The Big Four " during the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 | Paris Peace Conference ( from left to right, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, George Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson ).
From left to right: James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray | James Stewart ( Moray ), James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault | James Hamilton ( Châtellerault ), Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley | Lord Darnley, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox | Matthew Stewart ( Lennox ), William Maitland of Lethington | William Maitland ( Lethington ), William Kirkcaldy of Grange | William Kirkcaldy ( Grange ), James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton | James Douglas ( Morton ), John Knox, and George Buchanan
Tamar ( left ) and George III ( right ).
Grigory Gagarin | Prince Gagarin's reproduction of the royal panel at Betania, depicting George IV ( left ), Tamar ( center ), and George III ( right ), flanked by the warrior saints ( 1847 )

George and with
`` That critter will be back tomorrow '', predicted George Rust, `` and he'll bring fifty of his kind back with him.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.
A letter signed `` Isabell Bardall '' entreated `` Good Cozen '' Quiney to find her stepson Adrian, son of George Bardell, a place in London with some handicraftsman.
He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.
The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.
Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!
In I'll go with George dominant stress is probably on George ; ;
but if George has just been mentioned prominently ( and the trip to be made has been under discussion ), what is said is probably I'll go with him, and dominant stress is probably on the preposition with.
The Village office of Western Union with George Towsley as manager and telegrapher continued in Hard's drugstore until 1905.
In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.
The business of baseball began to prosper along with other entertainments, and performers -- thanks partly to George Herman Ruth's spectacular efforts each season to run his salary higher and higher -- prospered too.
George poised with the tack hammer, the homely, everyday atmosphere, all denied an attempt at murder.
The former county school superintendent, George P. Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board.
George Shearing took over with his well disciplined group, a sextet consisting of vibes, guitar, bass, drums, Shearing's piano and a bongo drummer.
After a short time, both George and Donald joined the class with me so they wouldn't feel lonely, and we used to hang a sign on the door of the Brush-off reading out to work.
We'll drop Mr. Rawlings off in Ardmore '', Julia said, and for the merest second George was reminded of her father's tone with servants.
She refolded the letter, replaced it in its envelope, and turned with relief to one from her brother George.
They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.
True anthropology began with a Government department: the Geological Survey of Canada, and George Mercer Dawson ( director in 1895 ).

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