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.

Among those in the picture are Monarchy of Belgium | King Albert II of Belgium | Albert II of the Belgians, U. S. President George W. Bush, President of the French Republic | French President Jacques Chirac, President of the Philippines | Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of Estonia | Estonian President Arnold Rüütel, and President of Portugal | Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio.

* George was portrayed by the actor Gerard Cooke in the British TV series Monarchy ( TV series )

* Vullaimy, C. E. Royal George: A Study of King George III, His Experiment in Monarchy, His Decline and Retirement, D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1937.

The station agent, Seth Raynor, who was a patriot during American Revolutionary War, disliked the name because it reminded him of the English and the colonial era ( St. George, the patron saint of England, is a symbol of the English Monarchy ).

* Monarchy in Canada: George VI then Elizabeth II

* Rawlinson, George The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World: The Seventh Monarchy: History of the Sassanian or New Persian Empire ( 1885 ; reprint 2007 ) ISBN 978-142-864-7.

He is co-author with Mark Logue of the best-selling book The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy, which tells the story of the friendship between King George VI and his Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue, that inspired the highly acclaimed film of the same name.

An essay on `` Freedom '' written at 10 years of age quoted the Declaration of Independence, the freedom given to slaves in Canada, and the views of George Washington.

True anthropology began with a Government department: the Geological Survey of Canada, and George Mercer Dawson ( director in 1895 ).

* 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.

Sarandon appeared in The Rothschilds and The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Broadway, as well making regular appearances at numerous Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw festivals in the United States and Canada.

File: St. George & St. Rueiss Coptic Orthodox Church. JPG | Saint Georges & Saint Rueiss Church, Toronto, Canada

* The George Vancouver Rose, named in his honour and hybridized by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ( 10 December 189116 June 1969 ) was a British military commander and field marshal who served with distinction in both world wars and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian Confederation.

He was in 1946 appointed as governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Earl of Athlone as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Vincent Massey in 1952.

It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.

Seated: Stanley Baldwin ( Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom ), King George V, William Lyon Mackenzie King ( Prime Minister of Canada | Canada ).

In April 2001, Prime Minister Patterson and other Caribbean leaders met with President George W. Bush during the Summit of the Americas in Quebec, Canada, at which a " Third Border Initiative " was launched to deepen U. S. cooperation with Caribbean nations and enhance economic development and integration of the Caribbean nations.

* 1907 – George Stanley, Canadian politician, designer of the flag of Canada ( d. 2002 )

Randi was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Marie Alice ( née Paradis ) and George Randall Zwinge .< ref >

* 1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.

Still, Richard Bennett was in 1941, six years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by King George VI as Viscount Bennett, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgary and Hopewell in the Dominion of Canada.

* Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, arguably the most widely distributed U. S .- based program in Canada

In 1917, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden suggested that the Turks and Caicos join Canada, but this suggestion was rejected by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.

In June 1937, during an Imperial Conference of all the Dominion Prime Ministers in London convened during the coronation of King George VI, King informed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Canada would only go to war if Britain were directly attacked, and that if Britain were to become involved in a continental war then Chamberlain was not to expect Canadian support.

** George VI ( King of the United Kingdom and his dominions, of Canada, of South Africa, of Australia, of New Zealand and of Ceylon ) dies aged 56 after a long illness.

** King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Quebec City to begin the first-ever tour of Canada by Canada's monarch.

In August, 1896, George Carmack, Kate Carmack, Keish, Dawson Charlie and Patsy Henderson, members of a Tagish First Nations family group, discovered rich placer gold deposits in Bonanza ( Rabbit ) Creek, Yukon, Canada.

* May 27 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.

The network became the home of many popular musical and comedy stars, among them Jack Benny, (" Your Canada Dry Humorist "), Al Jolson, George Burns & Gracie Allen, and Kate Smith, whom Paley personally selected for his family's La Palina Hour because she was not the type of woman to provoke jealousy in American wives.