In PEOPLE's exclusive excerpt from royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith's new book, George VI and Elizabeth ... and E looked so well," [his mother] Queen Mary wrote, "& did it all too ...

He was the second son of King George V who was never supposed to be crowned King, so when Prince Albert, Duke of York (the future King George VI), wed the Hon Elizabeth ... dressmaker to her future ...

Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary and was born on 14th December 1895 on ... The coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth was held on 12th May 1937.

Queen Mary, grandmother to Queen Elizabeth, died on this day 67 years ago. Here's how her life shaped the current royal family as we know it On this day in 1953, the public mourned the death of a ...

The Queen was buried next to Prince Philip, who died last year. The King George VI Memorial Chapel ... the official end to 10 days of national mourning for the queen and the start of seven ...

Michael Halbye, a 69-year-old financier whom King Frederik and Queen Mary counted as a close friend, suffered a serious skiing accident while on holiday in the moneyed Swiss resort of Verbier.