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The King George VI Memorial Chapel is part of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England. The chapel was commissioned by Elizabeth II in 1962 as a burial place for her father, George VI, and was completed in 1969.
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George VI (born Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor; [1]...
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On 6 February 1952, George VI, King of the United Kingdom, died at the age of 56, at Sandringham House, after a prolonged cancer. His state funeral took place on 15 February 1952. A period of national mourning commenced and his eldest daughter and successor, [a] Queen Elizabeth II, was proclaimed the new monarch by the Accession Council.
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch), and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter .
George VI (born Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor; [1] 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom from 11 December 1936 until his death on 6 February 1952. He became king when his older brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: The King George VI Memorial Chapel, part of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II in 1962 as a burial place for her father, King George VI, and was completed in 1969.
Sep 17, 2022 · The chapel — inside the walls of the castle — has been the burial place for almost every British monarch since King George III's death in 1820. Specifically, the Queen will be buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, a small enclave inside St George's. The Queen commissioned it as a burial place for her own father, King George VI, in 1962.
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Sep 17, 2022 · The memorial chapel, built in 1969 on Queen Elizabeth’s orders as the final resting place of George VI, is an attachment to the vastly grander St George’s Chapel, the construction of which was started in 1475 by Edward IV and was completed by Henry VIII in 1528.
