What happened on 12Th may 1935?
12th May 1937 : King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
King George was second in line to the throne but following his younger brother Edward who abdicated so he could marry American socialite and divorcee Wallis Simpson he became King.
King George's wife was the much loved Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon much better known as The Queen Mother, who died at the grand old age of 102 in March 2002. Their oldest daughter Queen Elizabeth is current Queen of England.
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