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An "extraordinarily rare" vintage car with potential royal connections has been discovered in a barn in Warwickshire. According to classic car auctioneers Humbert & Ellis, the 1952 Daimler DE 36 ...
King George VI Public School has been selected as one of 30 schools across Canada — and one of just 11 in Ontario — to receive a $20,000 grant from the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation.
King George VI visited the Vauxhall factory in 1941 to ... favoured over speed which resulted in it being able to turn on a sixpence. Early versions had problems with reliability, firepower ...
Kempton provides the backdrop for one of the year’s main events and the highlight of the festive period: the King George VI Chase. A talented field is booked in, and bettors have been busy studying ...
The trends for Kempton's Ladbrokes King George VI Chase - Britain's most prestigious race of its type aside from the Cheltenham Gold Cup - make for interesting reading as punters look to have ...
Our columnist feels there could be another Irish-trained winner of the Ladbrokes King George VI Chase at Kempton - check out her take on the big race. The Ladbrokes King George VI Chase is the big ...
Sporting an image of King George VI, the 1952 sixpence is made from cupro-nickel, featuring an uncrowned Royal portrait on its obverse and a Royal cipher on the reverse, flanked by the year and ...
The 1952 proof penny, featuring King George VI, is one of the last of the coins ... ‘The only mass-produced currency coins dated 1952 are the Sixpence which is rare, brass Threepence, Halfpenny ...
King George VI’s subjects and well-wishers everywhere ... assistants closed the wound and bandaged the torso. Instead of Sixpence. The King was wheeled to his own room and infusions were resumed.
King George VI died suddenly in his sleep on 6 February 1952 after 16 years on the throne following his brother’s abdication in December 1936. An official statement published later claimed the ...