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Princess Margaret photographed by Marcus Adams on 15 December 1936. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022.
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Princess Margaret photographed by Marcus Adams on 15 December 1936. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022.
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23 January 1936 | King George V’s funeral cortege passes through London on its way to Westminster Abbey. During the procession, part of the Imperial State Crown, which sat atop the King’s coffin, fell off. Some footage of the funeral procession shows the crown without the Maltese cross and orb.
As [the coffin] passed through streets packed to capacity with silent crowds, the Maltese cross - set with a sapphire said to have belonged to Edward the Confessor, eight medium-sized diamonds and 192 smaller diamonds - inexplicably fell from its place at the very top of the [Imperial State] Crown. Having caught a ‘flash of light dancing along pavement’, the new King’s [Edward VIII] instinct was to pick it up until, as he wrote, ‘a sense of dignity restrained me.’
‘Fortunately,’ he went on, ‘the Company Sergeant-Major bringing up the rear of the two files of Grenadiers... had also seen the accident. Quick as a flash, with scarcely a missed step, he... scooped up the cross with his hand, and dropped it into his pocket. It seemed’, said the King, ‘a strange thing to happen; and, although not superstitious, I wondered whether it was a bad omen.’
George V’s eldest son, King Edward VIII, abdicated on 11 December 1936, less than a year after inheriting the throne on 20th January, in order to marry his long-term mistress Mrs. Wallis Simpson, in an ordeal dubbed the ‘abdication crisis’. Wallis was, by then, a twice-divorced woman and as monarch Edward was the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, which disapproved of the remarriage of a divorced person if the former spouse was still alive. Rather than remain King without Wallis by his side, or marry her against the wishes of his ministers and cause a constitutional crisis, Edward chose to abdicate and was succeeded by his brother, King George VI - father of the current Queen Elizabeth II. Before his death, King George V is quoted to have said that David, as Edward was known by family and friends, would ‘ruin himself within a year’.
The Duke and Duchess of York with their daughter Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, photographed in 1936. © National Portrait Gallery.
King Edward VIII in 1936.
Princess Elizabeth photographed by Marcus Adams on 15 December 1936, four days after the accession of her father, King George VI. © The Royal Collection.
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Princess Elizabeth photographed c. 1936. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Princess Margaret, aged 6.
1936.
Princess Elizabeth with one of her corgis, in the garden of 145 Piccadilly, in 1936.