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for-valour · 1 month

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King George VI presenting a basket of shamrocks to the Irish Guards on St Patrick's Day in 1950 ☘️

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for-valour · 2 months

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i just wanna thank you for your blog and your very informative posts! it was the only thing keeping me sane during finals T^T. seeing your posts (and your tags too 👀) always makes me smile. have a great day! <3

Thank you! I truly appreciate this, especially because I’ve recently been really absent from posting due to work and life commitments. This is also a secondary account (big mistake!) so I’m not able to properly interact with likeminded folks on here, and that makes me pretty sad. So the fact that this humble blog can bring a smile to you honestly means so much to me 🥹.

Hope your finals went well ❤️ and thanks again for the support!

(Bonus content: two of my favourite photos of a smiling Bertie - he has the most engaging face!)

#thanks for reading the hashtags #just give me all the bertie #King George the sex I mean the sixth #king george vi #george vi #god save the king #the british royal family #the monarchy #the royal family #the british monarchy #albert duke of york #long live the king #british royal family

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for-valour · 2 months

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OH MY! 😍 Just a casual Prince Bertie stripping off his swimsuit and drying himself, before changing back into his shirtsleeves. Filmed whilst making the annual visit to his Boys’ Summer Camp, this one being held at New Romney in Kent, 1927.

Tag yourself: I’m the towel 😂

Original video here. gifs made by @for-valour

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for-valour · 2 months

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‘The Greaze is an annual custom unique to Westminster School, held each Shrove Tuesday since at least the mid 1700s but in a tradition likely to be medieval. A school cook tosses a pancake over an iron bar and pupils scramble to retrieve what they can of the pancake. The pupil with the largest piece wins a guinea from the Dean of Westminster, who also grants the whole school an extra day’s holiday — the ‘Dean’s play’.

The Greaze is the most anticipated event in the School diary and is a popular spectator event, notably in 1919 when it was attended by King George V and Queen Mary, alongside their sons, the future Edward VIII and George VI.’

Source: Westminster School

Aww, look at our baby-faced Bertie!

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for-valour · 2 months

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‘Attlee was to become very close to George VI. He enjoyed the king’s informality. He noted how Queen Victoria had made her ministers stand in her presence whereas George VI preferred a cigarette and a gossip.’

Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee. John Bew, 2016.

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for-valour · 2 months

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Happy Lunar New Year of the Dragon! 恭喜發財!

Thought it would be a nice moment to share this lovely Hong Kong Ten Dollar stamp!

Two photos of King George VI by Bertram Park were considered for use on postage stamps. The first portrait was rejected by the Royal Mint, but accepted for those produced for the Commonwealth. The second portrait was accepted for UK circulation - and it tickles me how the King’s big ear was made smaller!

Which portrait would you have chosen? (I say, screw the photos, just give me Bertie😂)

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for-valour · 2 months

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On the morning of February 6th, 1952, King George VI died in his sleep of a coronary thrombosis at Sandringham House. He was only 56. These clips are some of the last images of the King, as he anxiously waved goodbye to his beloved daughter, Princess Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, as they embarked on the Commonwealth tour that Bertie himself was supposed to undertake before becoming too ill to travel. The King looks so very worried here, pacing around the tarmac with a deeply furrowed brow. I honestly believe he knew in his heart that it was his final farewell to his darling Lilibet. How I hope that 'Us Four' are all having the warmest heavenly hugs today for sweet Bertie <3

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for-valour · 3 months

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Prince Albert & Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the future King George VI & Queen Elizabeth) got engaged on this day in 1923.

“My dear Darling, I am just writing you a very little letter, I shall be thinking about you when you get this, & hoping that everything will go off wonderfully well. I am quite sure it will. Also, I might add that I do [underlined several times] love you Bertie, & feel certain that I shall more & more . I shall miss you terribly. You are such an Angel to me.” - Queen Elizabeth

“This is my first letter to you since you made me such a very happy person that Sunday at St Paul’s Walden & you don’t know what a wonderful difference it has made to me darling, in all ways. I think I must have always loved you darling but could never make you realise it without telling you actually that I did & thank God I told you at the right moment.” - King George VI

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for-valour · 3 months

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Bertie & Elizabeth

She had given the Duke of York what he had always longed for, a happy family life. As his wife, she had dedicated herself to him… She had given him confidence and social grace…The King always talked of his family as ‘We Four’. But, within ‘We Four’, ‘We Two’ were closest of all.

Those closest to Elizabeth saw more clearly than the world at large that it was a relationship of mutual dependence. It had become commonplace to say that, without her, the King could never have become ‘the great and gallant King he proved to be’, as a friend in later life observed. ‘But perhaps what is not widely known is the fact of her great reliance on him, on his wisdom, his integrity, his courage…’

Doris Vyner {Elizabeth’s close friend since childhood} …understood how desperately she had needed the King and she commented that without him her ‘mainspring’ had gone. Indeed Doris pointed out to mutual friends whom she trusted that although everyone thought that the Queen had energized the King and kept him up to his work, in fact the opposite was true. The initiatives almost all came from the King - he had had to make the decisions. Now she was quite lost without him.”

from Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, by William Shawcross

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for-valour · 3 months

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“Where do you come from? Do you come from this part of the world?” 🥲

Hearing Bertie’s conversational voice is always such a treat - thanks for finding this, @george-the-good!

The King rarely stammered when he was able to speak more casually and openly - this was most evident when at home surrounded only by his beloved family. It’s also been noted that he could converse in French without hesitation, too! ❤️

(very brief!) footage of King George VI chatting with a man at a Scottish dockyard, February 1940.

The King & Queen were speaking with merchant seamen and skippers, as well as fishermen. More footage of this day (minus sound) can be seen HERE

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for-valour · 4 months

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King George VI's New Year Resolutions!

Just for fun :)

1. Get oneself back into shape.

2. Take up a new hobby!

3. Finally sort out the garden...

4. Treat oneself occasionally!

5. Try to improve relationships with certain family members... maybe? -_-

6. Spend as much time as possible with 'Us Four' ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

7. Make this year the year one quits smoking. AHAHA JUST KIDDING.

8. Blast Hitler into space!

. gifs made by @for-valour Sources: Getty, Alamy, and the BBC documentary, Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen.

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for-valour · 4 months

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Happy Heavenly Birthday to His Majesty King George VI; dearest Albert Frederick Arthur George; and, of course, our darling Bertie.

128 years old today, and forever handsome & delightful ❤️

14 Dec 1895 - 6 Feb 1952.

The Duke of York visits Penarth, South Wales , 1921. GIFs made by @for-valour

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for-valour · 6 months

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Hey friends & Bertie fans🥰

Really sorry I’ve disappeared for so long. I had a sudden bereavement in my immediate family which was really hard to cope with. And work is just incredibly busy and exhausting. It’s making it difficult to find the time to post here and conduct all the in-depth research that I always like to include -where possible- with the photos of our dear & sweet King George VI.

I’ve also neglected literally months of questions - and I am SO sorry about that. I believe that you all deserve thoughtful and thorough replies with as much care as possible… so I chose not to do it at all when I realised that life was getting overwhelming.

I hope you are all doing well. I have not forgotten this place, and there’s no way in hell that I’ve forgotten the cutie in my profile pic.

Be back as soon as I can! Please don’t forget me 🥲

xo

#king george vi #george vi #the british royal family #the royal family #the monarchy

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for-valour · 8 months

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Bertie, when still The Duke of York, examining pigeons at the The Old Comrades Pigeon Show, Doncaster, 1926.

The King And His Pigeons!

The Royal Pigeon Lofts at Sandringham were founded in 1886, when King Edward VII was still Prince of Wales. The first racing pigeons were a gift from King Leopold, and within a few years they were getting good results in various competitions and shows. In 1893, King George V (then the Duke of York), expressed a wish to start his own racing pigeon loft, with one of his pigeons successfully winning a national race from Lerwick, in Shetland.

King George V and Queen Mary, standing with Mr. J. Walter Jones, who is in charge of the Sandringham pigeons.

It was natural, then, that some of George's children would also follow this passion - most notably his second son, Prince Albert, later to become King George VI. Bertie visited The Old Comrades Pigeon Show where over a thousand of the best racing birds in the country were exhibited, raising a large sum of money for Royal London Hospital. This was also significant as it was the first time that Royalty had ever honoured a pigeon function!

Another angle with Bertie examining pigeons at the The Old Comrades Pigeon Show. The handler is Lt. Col. A H Osman.

Photo 1: King George VI and family with Mr. J. Walter Jones at the Royal Lofts, 1937. Photo 2: The Duke and Duchess of York releasing pigeons with messages for King George V, 1935.

The Sandringham pigeons were bred and trained for endurance and long-distance flying. This proved extremely useful during World War 2, when pigeons were used by The Army, The RAF, and the Civil Defence Services to transport messages.

Photo 1: Royal Blue wearing its Dickin Medal, held by Cpl Randall RAF. How cute! Photo 2: Royal Blue's medal on display (photo credit: Joseph Krol).

'Royal Blue', bred by King George VI, became the first pigeon to deliver a message from a forced-landed aircraft from the European mainland on October 10, 1940. For this, the clever and brave bird received The Dickin Medal for Gallantry!

Sources: The RPRA, Doncaster Pigeon Show, National Flying Club, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.

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for-valour · 8 months

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That adorable little shiver! OH BERTIE!🥹

Visiting his Duke of York Boys’ Camp, New Romney, 1927.

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for-valour · 8 months

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I adore finding original true colour footage of our lovely King George VI ❤️

There is so little available that I am always surprised to see his tanned skin (from spending so much time outdoors!) and the brightness of his ribbon medals.

Check out the way he just eyeballs the camera for a split second. You better look sharp and behave! Bertie’s always watching you…

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) at Malvern College, Worcestershire, in 1944. Source: The Imperial War Museum

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for-valour · 8 months

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“The King looked at her as if he couldn’t believe anybody could be so much fun.”

- George VI, Sarah Bradford.

Happy Heavenly Birthday to your papa’s ‘Joy’ — beautiful Princess Margaret is 93 today!

I love how Bertie says, ‘mwaah’ and smiles with such bashful pride when Margot gives him a kiss. It’s too precious! 🥹

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