Dr. Andrew Thompson is a consultant to the series The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, and author of the biography George II: King and Elector ...

King George VI died in his sleep. It was a defining moment in the British monarchy. Princess Elizabeth, then 25, was in Kenya ...

29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King ... World War II and Korean War Veteran Lt. Col. George Davis ...

While the reigns of George I and II had been marked by a royal ... his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child.