King George VI Was A MONSTER Off Camera

He died in his sleep at Sandringham on the sixth of February, 1952, fifty-six years old, five months after surgeons removed a lung. The country mourned the shy, decent, stammering king. His own family had a private word for his rages. They called them his gnashes. In 1923 his bride laid her wedding bouquet on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, a gesture every royal bride has copied since. She had refused him twice before she agreed to it. Then she outlived him by fifty years and chose the man who wrote his life. Why did she finally say yes?