Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by George VI

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British royalty George VI.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
George VI

George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was concurrently the last Emperor of India until August 1947, when the British Raj was dissolved.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.
The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.
There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by. — © George VI
There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.
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