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MOST AMERICANS HAVE ONLY A PASSING RESPECT FOR "KINGS AND QUEENS " THIS IS A SMALL TOKEN OF RESPECT AND ADMIRATION FOR KING GEORGE VI, THE MAN WHO WASNT SUPPOSED TO BE KING........ IN 1936 , KING GEORGE V DIED, THE KING HAD HELD THE THRONE SINCE 1911. HIS SON, EDWARD VIII ( DAVID) STOOD RELUCTANTLY READY TO ASSUME THE THRONE , HOWEVER, AFTER LESS THAN A YEAR, EDWARD VIII ,IN DECEMBER 1936 ABDICATED THE THRONE , IN FAVOR OF MARRYING HIS SWEETHEART , THE AMERICAN DIVORCEE WALLIS WARFIELD SIMPSON, ( ALL DUE RESPECT TO EDWARD VIII , BUT IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE , AS MRS. SIMPSON WAS RATHER HOMELY ) . AT THIS POINT , GEORGE VI ASCENDED THE THRONE IN MAY, 1937 .A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER, IN THE FALL OF 1939, WORLD WAR II BEGAN , WHEN NAZI GERMANY INVADED POLAND, GREAT BRITAIN & FRANCE WERE PROPELLED INTO WAR. THIS IS THE PART, FOR WHICH THIS MAN WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY DEEPEST RESPECT AND ADMIRATION.. AFTER GERMANY DEFEATED FRANCE, THAT LEFT ONLY GREAT BRITAIN IN HITLER'S PATH TOWARD WORLD CONQUEST. HOWEVER, THE GERMANS WERE IN FOR BIG TROUBLE, BECAUSE THE BRITS HAD NO INTENTION OF BEING DEFEATED , ( IN FACT, IF THE UNITED STATES HAD STAYED OUT OF THE WAR, I BELIEVE THE PEOPLE OF THE U.K. WOULD HAVE FOUGHT , MAN, WOMAN & CHILD TO THE BITTER END, RATHER THAN LIVE UNDER A DICTATORSHIP ) AS HISTORY HAS SHOWN, THE GERMANS BOMBED ENGLAND MERCILESSLY , KILLING THOUSANDS,. WHEN BUCKINGHAM PALACE WAS BOMBED, AND THE KING AND QUEEN WERE NEARLY KILLED, THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF CONCERN FOR THE ROYALS SAFETY . IT WAS REPORTEDLY SUGGESTED THAT WINSTON CHURCHILL URGED THE KING TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY , DUE TO ,AMOUNG OTHER THINGS , A LOOMING GROUND INVASION THREAT , ( IF THE GERMANS HAD SUCESSFULLY INVADED THE U.K., COULD YOU IMAGINE WHAT A PRIZE CAPTURING THE KING OF ENGLAND WOULD HAVE BEEN? ) BUT THE KING REFUSED TO GO ( HE AND THE QUEEN COULD HAVE EASILY FLED TO CANADA OR THE U.S ) GEORGE VI IS REPORTED TO HAVE REPLIED TO THE CONCERN OF A TROOP INVASION OF THE BRITISH ISLES WITH ( IM PARAPHRASING ) "IM A MARKSMAN, GIVE ME A RIFLE, AND I LL FIGHT " I BELIEVE HE WOULD HAVE, THANK GOD, IT NEVER CAME TO THAT. CAN ANYONE IMAGINE ANY WORLD LEADER TODAY , WITH THAT HIGH MEASURE OF BRAVERY? I DOUBT ANY U.S PRESIDENT SINCE JFK OR EISENHOWER WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT BRAVE, I ALWAYS ADMIRED THIS MAN ( GEORGE VI ) FOR HIS UNCOMMON BRAVERY..WHAT ELSE WOULD ANYONE DO? IF SOMEONE ATTACKS YOUR HOME, YOUR COUNTRY , YOUR WAY OF LIFE, IF COURSE YOU FIGHT!!! THIS MAN WITH A KIND FACE AND SAD EYES , A BIT FRAIL LOOKING, WHO OFTEN SPOKE WITH A STAMMER, WAS ONE OF THE BRAVEST MEN IN UK HISTORY , THE MAN WHO WASNT SUPPOSED TO BE KING , CERTAINLY MORE THAN LIVED UP TO THE TITLE. THE FINE PORTRAIT OF KING GEORGE VI RAN ON ALL BRITISH COMMON WEALTH COINS FROM 1937-1952 AND I FEEL IS ONE OF THE BETTER MONARCH PORTRAITS ON CANADA COINAGE THANK YOU___ DANNY ANABLE _ "CANADA COIN NUT "_____JULY ,2006
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