George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the throne upon his brother's abdication, he was immediately confronted with the turmoil in European politics leading up to the Second World War, then the War itself, followed by a period of austerity, social transformation and loss of Empire. George was unprepared for kingship, suffering from a stammer which could make public occasions very painful for him. Moreover he had grown up in the shadow of his brother, a man who had been idolized as no royal prince has been, before or since. However, as Sarah Bradford shows in this sympathetic biography, although George was not born to be king, he died a great one.
- ISBN10 0141006560
- ISBN13 9780141006567
- Publish Date 28 February 2002 (first published 11 April 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 January 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 704
- Language English