George VI

King George VI begged him to consider what a blow it would be to England should the Belfast be hit by a chance bomb.

For a story about the coronation of King George VI in 1935, Cartier-Bresson rather notably took zero pictures of the monarch.

It was made by society jewelers Garrard, who refashioned the gems from a pendant she was given by her husband, George VI.

The day before his wedding, King George VI titled his future son-in-law Philip Duke of Edinburgh.

Years later, George VI happened on a detailed record of a John Brown séance that had somehow managed to survive.

Number 37 was an old concrete-and-steel structure of the George VI period, faced with a veneer of red brick.