1. George VI held a long torch for Loughborough, but there was a hitch: she was already married.
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4. George VI was king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1936 to 1952.
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9. George VI was interred initially in the Royal Vault until he was transferred to the King George VI Memorial Chapel inside St George's on 26 March 1969.
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11. In January 1946, George VI addressed the United Nations at their first assembly, which was held in London, and reaffirmed "our faith in the equal rights of men and women and of nations great and small".
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19. George VI was born at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria.
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20. George VI adopted the new title of Head of the Commonwealth.
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21. George VI attended naval college as a teenager, and served in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force during the First World War.
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