This week in royal history: Coronation of King George VI in 1937 and VE Day in 1945

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were crowned inside Westminster Abbey on May 12, 1937, five months after his brother Edward VIII had abdicated so he could marry divorcee Wallis Simpson.

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