George VI and Prince George, Duke of Kent
Family
Bond strength41/100
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Brothers, sons of George V and Queen Mary. The elder — a stammerer who never wanted the crown — took the throne only after his brother Edward abdicated; the younger, the most social of the brothers, served as an airman and died in a military air crash in 1942.
How they met
They never met: they grew up together in the same royal nursery.
The core tension
One carried a crown he never wanted; the other was free of it, and died on active service before the war was won.
What connects them
- father:George V
- mother:Mary of Teck
- sibling:Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
- sibling:Prince George, Duke of Kent
- sibling:Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
- sibling:George VI
- sibling:Prince John of the United Kingdom
- sibling:Edward VIII