As Queen Elizabeth II lies in state, people across the West have been remembering what happened in the days and weeks following King George VI's death in 1952. Stan Jones, 88, remembered working ...

His birthday, 129 years ago today, fell on the 34th anniversary of the death of his great-grandfather ... and he was crowned King George VI on May 12, 1937, in Westminster Abbey.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) gave so-called glizzies to British royals in the 1930s. The recipients of those hot dogs were King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939 — and notably ...