King George VI & Elizabeth - A royal love story - part 1
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- Documentary about George VI and his wife Elizabeth, King and Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions. The story of Albert (his name before he became King) and Elizabeth, is one of goodness growing into greatness. In a short reign, just 14 years, they created an ideal of the British Royal Family. This documentary examines the legacy they built, a legacy that lives on in the way that their eldest daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, rules today.
It was said that George wasn't as good looking as his older brother but looking at this old footage King George is much more easy on the eyes .
@ThatOneAsianBroChick Agree, Albert was handsome.
Bertie was very charismatic in a David Bowie sort of way
George the V was extremely similar looking to tsar Nikolai II of Russia. They were first cousins. Their mothers were sisters
ThatOneAsianBroChick King George was indeed introverted and I guess he suffered from anxiety and therefore stuttered but mostly the one that don’t seek power, are the best at ruling. King Edward was charismatic and extroverted but would have been a terrible ruler
@Riley Dallas is it free??
He was extremely handsome. Much more so than the actors who portray him. That face...
You darn Skippy he was, very handsome!!!!!
He was
He was incredibly handsome!!! and a good man.
Whose handsome ???
Whose handsome ???
George said " Elizabeth is my pride and joy ,, but Margaret is my beloved darling " It was so beautiful I thought . He was a great father, husband and king
Margaret was his joy.
@@ishaanchhabra2155 No it Should be Albert ll
He was also very handsome 😍
Yes, his wife and two daughters meant everything to him. His love for them is very touching.
He actually said “Elizabeth is my pride,
Margaret is my joy”.
The best thing that could have happened was when Edward abdicated the throne.
A man that put duty and the people of Britain first, as he taught his daughter to do, was exactly who was meant to reign.
HE was a king!
Royal history is so interesting
I don’t know why but I totally agree. I watch and read about it all the time. Weird.
Agreed
Yes
Yeah. 🙂
So is your history
King George VI is truly a gem he was a good father and a good king.
And faithful husband to Queen Mary not like his father. George read Bible every day. Bertie took his father. Was a good husband and father.
@@Volynyanka King George V was married to Queen Mary not George VI
@@pedanticradiator1491I guess, I am bad with Romans numerals; just kidding . Oh, well, one George less one George more....😁. Thx for a correction.
@@Volynyanka probably they all fked each other like animals.
Here after watching The King's Speech. He had stammer and is frightened to speak infront of many people, let alone be the King but had no choice when his eldest brother took the easy way out and abdicated. He was a strong and resposible man. Didn't have the best childhood but raised his own children the best way and became a good father and King.
Watch the crown its good.
So easy for people like you to judge.. he took the way way out? Stfu KAREN
Edward would have made a rotten king. Thank goodness for Mrs Simpson
Yes, mrs Simpson somehow and in a strange way, saved Britain in the long term
Edward would have had Hitler as a regular guest.
yes its weird but its good at the same time as we had a great king
He was a nazi in my eyes
Queen Elizabeth II has inherited and incorporated all the good attributes of her parents into her reign.
I have shed many tears over her in the last few days.
@@dulls8475 Why? 🧐
@@wfs4227 I was one of her soldiers and i am not black hearted.
Dude her job was to sit in a room and wave at people, what attributes does she need?
@@tmpqtyutmpqty4733 There is more to this. Every week she has a meeting with her prime ministers. She's learned a lot through 15 PM's. She's seen a lot and probably gives advice and opinions on her weekly meetings, even though she is not supposed to, they probably respected her opinions. Also, she saw the graceful decline of the British colonial empire and did not fight to retain parts of the British Empire, knowing colonialism was dead after WWII.
God bless them both in Heaven. He never wanted to be King but was a hero to his nation. They both would be very proud of their daughter, Queen Elizabeth long may she reign and live. She's 92 now.
Long may Elizabeth reign! Prince William will someday make a great & respectable king. Never realized the hell George V put his children through.
Fuck her
Heaven?
He was handsome
@@khaieverett6602 You're out of luck mate. She wouldn't look twice at a small little man like you!
I m not british, but I ve learnt a lot about european dinasties. To be honest, for me,Bertie was a real blessing. Im romanian, and we have a king,Carol II,the cousin of Eduard VIII,who also left the throne for a woman, almost identical as W.Simpson.In real history books,i ve read that both cousins ( your Eduard and out Carol II),suffered from priapism . That s why,both of them were insclaved by two women who had some sexual skils.And Bertie was a stutterer, like out king Michael of Romania, who was his nephew. And they look alike. Same dinastic family, same problems. I really admire George VI,aș I admire out Michael I. They were both very strong characters, despite their stummering,very inteligent and so loving aș husbands and fathers.
American here. The royal families history is really interesting to me. I don’t get why every actor whose played King George vi has looked nothing like him? He was an attractive man
He has very specific facial features. It's quite difficult to find someone who can look like him. One of my teachers looked like him.
@@larchitecte5287 I know someone who looks a lot like him & he is not even white but an Indian man!!
@@simiedulay Hrithik?
5:42 Albert... poor thing he was so cute and adorable!!!
5:02 that is an unbelievable photo George VI in the arms of his great grandmother
why is it unbelievable??
Maybe unbelievable because he was born on the anniversary of Prince Albert’s death. The family was concerned about how Queen Victoria would feel toward the baby boy. They named him Albert, after his great grandfather. This is from Wikipedia:
“Uncertain of how the Prince Consort's widow, Queen Victoria, would take the news of the birth, the Prince of Wales wrote to the Duke of York that the Queen had been "rather distressed". Two days later, he wrote again: "I really think it would gratify her if you yourself proposed the name Albert to her."[4]
The Queen was mollified by the proposal to name the new baby Albert, and wrote to the Duchess of York: "I am all impatience to see the new one, born on such a sad day but rather more dear to me, especially as he will be called by that dear name which is a byword for all that is great and good”
That is queen victoria
Yep, he lived about 6yrs with his grand mother.
I think George was better looking than his brother Edward not the other way round.
Even though George V was known to instill tough love unto his children (it was said that) he did soften after his granddaughter Elizabeth was born. He loved her so much that he wished that David (Edward VIII) would bore no children so that nothing could come between the throne and Bertie (George VI) and Lilibet (Elizabeth II)
He was handsome because his mother was a beauty
The queen is now with the king and the queen mother.
Edward VII was NOT their oldest child -- Victoria the Empress Frederick was.
TurfGuy n
You are correct, he was the eldest son and he is the only one people think off when it comes to Queen Victoria's children. They forget Victoria, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold and Beatrice.
Back then the girls didn’t count. Only the first sons counted.
Deborah Allen Exactly the way it should be. (Just kidding, honest.) 😊
@@mikewilliams258 You had me believing you!!!! ☺️☺️☺️
george V looks exactly like nikolaus II..
They were twins but they hided it
George and Nicky's Mothers, Alexandra and Dagmar, were sisters, which explains why they looked so alike.
Wango Mango I have several cousins and I don't look like any of them. So what's your point?
all royal families are related thanks to king christian ix of denmark
Many of Queen Victoria's kids, grandkids and great grandkids had a strong resemblance to each other. The Gene's back then were very strong.
George VI still did a good job leading the British through World War II although Winston Churchill did most of the stuff, George at least helped.
britainluver431
The queen elizabeth the queen mother helped a lot also
George VI had very good instincts as King and it meant a lot during the war.
He was the symbol of England's pride.
I always thought behind the scenes the queen mother was a witch but in truth she loved her husband and her two daughters. And would do anything for them.
She did but she is a witch of a person indeed. What do you expect, even in the documentary here, the narrator said she wasn't pretty 😄 and she wasnt shes ugly. Knowing women she had to compensate her uglyness into something pretty so compromiseing would be her being disgustingly horrible as a person and fake charming to others
The King was. Lovely man I remember the day he died when our school teacher announced it to us . He said The King is Dead Long live the Queen
I had the great honour of being asked to sing our national anthem 'O Canada' at a state luncheon for the Qieen Mother, in Edmonton Alberta. As she was leaving she broke away from her escort and walked over and shook my hand and thanked me for singing and she chatted a bit about the good acoustics.
Some 'alternate facts' Mitchell is also a Scottish name, from the word 'michel' meaning a big man. My grandfather was Scottish.Secondly - Hitler called the Queen Mother 'The most dangerous woman in Europe' because she united the British people behind her to fight him. Thirdly - I recently had my first holiday in Ireland and found the people to be delightfully friendly. If TurfGuy is Irish then he's the disgrace to his race.
TurfGuy You just got fucking disgraced
How wonderful.
John Mitchell you tube mixes
John Mitchell n
Bertie was so handsome
King George broke his sons spirit. I Don't doubt that's why he had a nervous condition.
The most genuine royal love story.
Edward VII was not Victoria and Albert's eldest, his was the second born after his sister Victoria.
Watching this the day our Queen Elizabeth II is being buried... So sad!
Beautiful smile is questionable, her teeth were shocking.
Beautifully documented. Very nice to see rare videos.
Victoria and Albert's oldest child wasn't "Bertie' who went on to be Edward VII, Victoria was their first child
Kami Robey You are right. Vicky was born first followed by Albert Edward (Edward VII).
did not matter that time male first line
@@vivianebeget Whether it mattered or not as far as the succession, it's still incorrect to say he was the first child. That's not the only thing this video got wrong.
The last thing Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons wanted as to be Queen. In fact Bertie had to ask her three times to marry him. She finally relented. What she "got" after Dec 1936 was a testing time, but she well and truly served her country totally.
Edward Vll was terrified of his mother Queen Victoria, I cant say I totally blame him for how he treated his sons at least as far as the "ecxcuse" for his trauma goes ,she was very tough and sadly the cycle continued with hs sonGeorge the V and his sons until finally George the Vl broke the circle of using fear to raise your kids,good for him at that specific aspect of not using fear to raise a child (coldness is another issue), and it thankfully carried on with Queen Elizabeth ll and her son Prince Charles lll and him with his son William the V and him with his son George Vll and hopefully it will continue like that.
Facts. George VI was a great father who had a great relationship with his family.
at the end of the day, no one in this world has a smooth, happy life
He was a handsome dude. Miss Margo def got his good looks!
I can relate to King George VI in terms of shyness
2:43 the eldest is Victoria who would later become Empress Frederick of Prussia.
Also, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was the first English born Consort since Catherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII, who died in 1545. After that all Consorts were foreign born, though James II first wife, and mother of the two future Queens, Mary II and Anne was English, but she died 14 years before he took the Crown. His second wife, who was the Consort, was Italian.
Wasn't Mary of Teck English born too?
@@jcruby2328 Mary of Teck. Her father was German and her mother was English.
@@SymphonyBrahms I know Francis of Teck was German. But we're talking about who the first English consort here and it isn't the queen mum, as Mary of Teck was born British too.
Most handsome man ever.. He was a great father, husband, and KING❤
I think Lady Elizabeth / Queen Mother was an absolute doll as a child and a beautiful woman !
More I’m portent, she was a good and decent and strong woman, wife and mother. She was the woman behind the man. She gave their home and family love and stability and dignity. And she was there for Bertie. And as the queen mum, she as at Queen Elizabeth’s side, every step of the way.
Didnt like her at all.
Please no!....but she was a dutiful wife and great mom
The current Royals physical looks are from the Queen Mother and Bertie’s. Its much better if they get the looks from the Saxe Coburg and Gotha.
In spite of her initial refusals, I think the queen mom was devoted to her husband and her job as duchess of York and of queen and finally, as queen mother.
I am amazed at how much King Edward (who abdicated) looks like King George.
TheMinnie419 Well they were brothers..?
They were brothers, what do you expect???
King George looks a loooot like his mother queen Mary
3:55 the adorable, loving, eternal young Prince John... you've been forgotten but we know you existed...
Odd isnt it how he suddenly died just like that vanished!
Poor Prince John... He didn't deserves the treatment he had (hiding) just because he was ill so different for them. Even his tomb is not a royal prince tomb. George v and Mary were heartless. What a shame ! RIP beautiful and lovely Prince John.
@@josephina2011 He had epilepsy and died after a seizure. Not odd.
@@sabrinadupont2017 He was a much loved member of the family. He had epilepsy, and most likely because of the frequent seizures, had developmental problems. He lived in the country close to his grandmother, Queen Alexandra. She had a garden bed made for him which he enjoyed planting flowers in every time he came. He had friends he played with. He had the mind of a small child, even as he grew older. He was not able to function well or understand what was going on much at official occasions. In the country, he was able to have fun with his pets and friends and didn't have to go to official events. His last day was happy, spent going for a long walk with his big sister Mary. He was buried close to where he lived much of his life, very close to his late uncle, by the way. Do you criticize that Prince Alexander John, George V's baby brother, was buried in the Sandringham cemetery too? Or is that okay?
@@SR-iy4gg Don't be mad at me. His story is so sad. For me even if he had seizure, he could be with his family. He could be in the palace with them but not in public representation or responsabilité but It's not a reason to hiding him. He could have friends but a child needs to be with his parents, brothers and sister...
Even if they visited him, it's not the same thing, only visits.
When you hear that one of his brothers told about him in a letter, It's just horrible and heartless.
Sorry but this is my opinion.
The narrator slipped up when he mentions that G & E's legacy lives on in how their daughter,Elizabeth,rules.She doesn't rule she reigns.
JohnPaul Dixon who
he's just reading a script ;) it's the writers of the documentary probably
Amen sista
That's right. The Parliament rules. The Queen reigns.
i don't know why i love watching old things it's just amazing we can document now
Top top man and a glorious king
King George 6 and Queen mum were great people, they did duty, Their daughter Queen Elizabeth
like them,
The queen mother was an illegitimate child and thus was adopted by the rich household. There maid gave birth and was ask to leave and the child became married to king George.
What???
Any proof?
That was a lie told by Wallis Simpson. There is absolutely no proof of it. You are spreading lies.
The Queen Mother was not as angelic as she is portrayed in the media
Lol I’m 19 in collage but I watched a documentary about him in one of my classes today and I found him so attractive so now I’m here lol
Lizzy Hale congrats?
Your'e in college and cannot spell the damn word ,,, god help us
@@thomaslowdon5510 lol
0:51 George VI reigned for 15+ years - not 14. Late 1936 to early 1952.
This is all chronicled in the movie, "The King's Speech."
"Sadness has not killed anyone, but has made us empty of everything."
So when the Queen Mother was celebrating her 100th birthday, I was born!
Jisk van der Veen It means you are born in the year2000
4th of August :)
Jisk van der Veen we share same birth date
@@Nem4891 i was born when she died
Wow! Jiskpirate you young un
Being a history buff, this was the greatest movie I have ever seen. Both men should have shared the Oscar. Watching the 60 Minutes interview was outstanding. Well done in every detail....Long Live The King!
التاريخ يعطيني امل في الحياه... الكل سيرحل.. وتبقى سيرته وأعماله... الصالحون سيرحلون.. والطغاه سيرحلون...
This is very enjoyable to watch. Thank you for posting. It is nice to see theirs was a love match and they were faithful to each other.
He had some fine asss sons that’s all imma say
Who do you think the most good looking?
Right?! I wonder what happened with Charles
@@anneneville6255 Marriage between cousins. I say no more.
That's how one raises a Narcissist Personality Disorder - the Emotional and Physical abuses. Cold and demeaning.
Truth...they are pathetic lost souls who don't know how to love or be loved. They live in a world of illusion...and will NEVER KNOW true admiration, love, or respect in an inauthentic shell. If they weren't so evil and destructive towards others, one might feel some sympathy for their meaningless life.
Perhaps King George V's hardness on his royal kids set the building blocks to the later Edward VIII renouncing the thrrrone
A Netflix documentary said as much. George V was very harsh as was their Mum. Watch 'The Crown' on Netflix or somewhere and see ERII's story when Prince Philip and she were first married then she became Queen.
Indeed. George V was not raised with an iron hand but his sons were, by him. He was stupid, said to have never read a book, and loved nothing more than slaughtering animals. His appalling treatment of his epileptic last son John is a stark condemnation of him. Queen Mary was his enabler.
I hope you don't think The Crown is a documentary, it is a dramatisation, not the same thing.
@@richardlawson4317 But he didn't treat his epileptic son John appallingly at all - that is just yet another fallacy.
Miss X do you have a Snapchat? You’re cute
He was a sex addict but was faithful to his wife? Nice try.
If you put the picture of Elizabeth at 7:52, and compare it to her great-great-daughter, Princess Charlotte, they look very similar.
She is Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, the Queen Mother.
I kept being confused by thoughts about genetics. George the V, and George the VI and his brother are so similar... And then, from Elizabeth it seems to me that they are taking after queen Mary
Yes they do seem to look like Queen Mary, who looked a lot like her great-grandmother Queen Charlotte (George III's queen)
She was educated her duty and the responsibility very well by her parents. Windsor family has women power.
He was a handsome king ❣️
Victoria & Albert, Edward & Alexandra, George & Mary, George & Elizabeth, Elizabeth & Philip, to be followed by.....Charles & Camilla. OMG....how the mighty have fallen!
Yes, thank goodness. Charles, a man before his time in so many environmental issues, will be a fine King. His intention to modernise & streamline the monarchy can only be good for the Country. It's a shame that the ignorant are gullible enough only to believe the bad press.....
You know, if they hadn’t been so stupid about “Virgin” brides, Camilla would have been as perfect a match as Catherine is for William. Charles loved her. Period.
Charles cheated on Diana with married Camilla. And they will succeed Elizabeth I? Yes, the mighty will have fallen when those two cheaters become pseudo rulers.
If Queen Elzabeth the II was raised by such loving, involved parents, why was she a distant, disinterested parent. Her father was King and still an active father. She had Charles and Anne before she was queen and was distant and cold.
perhaps the timing of the succesion played a big role. I think her parents were more mature when they were crowned. it's just a guess tbh.
Ugh she was crowned QUEEN at 25 years old. 25!!!! Her kids were barely toddlers! I cant imagine being crowned queen at 25, after loosing your father so soon!!! Also, it wasnt until she was around 12 that her father was considered for the throne. Before she turned 12, King George was still just considered the "spare". It wasnt until her uncle abdicated that when she was age 12 her father became King. He was 41 years old when he took the throne. 41 years old with a 12 year old. Vs. a 25 year old with toddlers! In contrast her own children Anne and Charles were 5 and 3 at the time when she became Queen. She had less time with them when they were younger, unlike her father who raised her until she was 12 when he all of a sudden became King at 41, whereas she became Queen at 25.
She was crowned too soon. She didn’t expect it to be this soon. Her father was only 56 when he died! She had a lot to learn as a young Queen. She had to put the job first.
Queen Elizabeth II was distant to her 2 oldest, but warm to the 2 youngest children.
@@shaniadirstein3650 Her father became king when was around 10 not 12
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's "eldest" child was Victoria, later Empress of Germany. Their eldest *son* was Albert Edward, later King Edward VII. I really hate it when common information gets skewed like this...
"drilled like soldiers by their father" Oh, good grief. They're playing for crying out loud. You've never seen kids playing soldier or similar things? There is no evidence that George ever said that quote about making sure his children were frightened of him.
Talk about naive
He did say the quote about being frightened by his mother
My mother was same age as the Queen but lived in poverty in St Pancras. One room to eat, sleep and cook. Luckily WW2 evacuation got her out to Luton where she was given a slightly better life.
❤️🙏
King Edward the VII was NOT the eldest child of Queen Victoria their eldest was Victoria, queen of Prussia
she was HRH Princess Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Brittain and Ireland
He was the eldest son.
3:19 -- would that scene also include future King Edward VIII? If you stop at 4:07, you see, from left: future Edward VIII, future George VI, King George V
The queen mother treated people awful and died in so much dept I expect it died with her totally wrong she demanded people locked her boots so to speak. I am just glad our queen Elizabeth married prince Philip there are so good together and good for her. They have given this country more than any other royal has ever given this country I am proud to call them my queen and prince Philip, I always wondered why he wasn't given the title as king because that is how I see him.
Princess Anne has also given her life to this country I look up to her too, and her two lovely children
Leslsey Allinson lies
Vicious lies.
Edward was not the Eldest child of Queen Victoria, that was Victoria (Vicky) Empress of Prussia. Edward was the second child but Eldest son.
Even if she was boys go first if they’re born
At his funeral three queens attended mother wife and daughter were there mother died next year 1953 mother died fifty years ,ster daughter died last seventy years layer
I see why Elizabeth 1 was so smitten with Albert. He is so handsome!!
The Queen Mother was nor Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I was queen in the 1500's. Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was simply known as Queen Elizabeth.
The Queen mum does have a French look to her.
Queen Elizabeth inherited her Mother's smile.
Those children were so adorable of Queen Mary and King George V.
I don’t think the queens mother was attractive at all but I suppose her father thought so.
No wonder they both stuttered. What an evil man!
Seeing as this video has some glaring errors I wouldn't believe everything it implies🤣
No wonder David went off the rails and Albert had a stutter. Their father was tyrant
Prince Alexander and Princess Eloise, He Played Zazu on Broadway
George V1.... was....so handsome!!!He.....had...such..Grace, too!!!
King george vi look like christopher reeve as superman... very handsome...
She sounds like a Beautiful Woman. Us Elizabeth are the Best lolol.
É uma pena não ter legendas, ou tradutor
Victoria and Albert' s eldest child was Victoria
The old style monarchy would never have permitted commoners to marry into the family : Princess Margaret started the trend .
TheCWMHALL Er The Queen Mother was a Commoner. Despite a title she was still a Commoner in the eyes of the Royals. Lady Diana was the same.
It is well known that Princess Diana had a much stronger Royal blood than Prince Charles.
There were commoners who married in long before Margaret.
*Henry VIII's younger sister married a duke (her second husband).
*Victoria's fourth daughter married a duke.
*Edward VII's eldest daughter married a duke
Only one of George's children (George) married another Royal (Marina of Greexe/Denmark).
TheCWMHALL Princess Patricia of Connaught, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, married a commoner.
I don’t think they had much choice, the gene pool was becoming rather small and murky
I didn't know about Royal family but now I watching Royal history it's very interesting also they're so beautiful & handsome.
Hard to follow, Edward VIII, David Duke of Windsor, abdicated making his brother George King
Wonder if she approved of him smoking!
It's so evident that Almighty God chose this beautiful family to rule over GB. ( conceding the events)
The monarchy is not dying.
Elizabeth was a woman...right!
Всю жизнь сидели на шеи английского народа!
King George didn't even help his cousin tzar Nicholas and his family. What a shame to the Britain cold heart king
Europe was in the middle of a war. Granting asylum to the Romanovs carried a lot of dangerous political baggage including antagonizing the new Russian government. Monarchs would rather save their own family and put their own countries first. And unlike Russia's divine monarchy, UK's monarchy was constitutional so even if George V did want to save his cousins and their children, his decision should also meet the approval of the Parliament aka the people actually running the country. Unfortunately for the Romanovs, UK's King and the government chose to maintain tenuous peace in the country rather than giving their own people reasons to incite their own version of the Revolution in the middle of WWI.
Even Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was third cousin to the Tsar and first cousin of the Tsarina, did not offer asylum despite having a better relationship with the Bolsheviks. The other European royalties were also trying to find ways to grant asylum, but they were also blocked by the same wall faced by UK and Germany. And nobody expected that the whole family will be executed.
Maybe if Nicolas and Alexandra had been less foolish and less stubborn, and had actually listened to the Duma's urging to flee while there was still time, then the Imperial family wouldn't have been wiped out.
Perhaps a coward .His wife/queen also blocked the rescue as she was jealous of all powerful Russian monarch and the richest royalty ,at one time, in the world.She being a powerless constitutional figure. The Russian royal family could have been taken to an unknown destination without the world knowing it.
@아엠나다 That was to be done without world knowing the act.
@@rajeshjhalani3014 There's no proof of that. You are spreading a falsehood.
King George wanted to bring them to England, but Parliament denied him that offer. In England, Parliament holds the power, not the king.
Great information. The end of the video is abrupt and seems to leave you hanging. You ended it just last the story was beginning.
2:41 "Bertie" aka King Edward VII was not Victoria and Albert's eldest child