George_VI

qas: question: What year was Britain and allies victorious in the war?
answers: text: 1945
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question: When did India and Pakistan gain independence?
answers: text: 1947
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question: What title did George have in India prior to 1948?
answers: text: Emperor of India
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question: What did Ireland declare itself in 1950?
answers: text: republic
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question: In what year was the Commonwealth of Nations established?
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question: In what year did George's reign begin?
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question: In what year did Elizabeth succeed King George?
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question: Who was one of Britain's allies during the war?
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question: What was India before becoming a republic?
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question: In what year did George become King?
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question: In what year did the historian John Grigg accuse George VI of violating the constitution?
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question: What was the name of the first act?
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context: During George's reign the break-up of the British Empire and its transition into the Commonwealth of Nations accelerated. The parliament of the Irish Free State removed direct mention of the monarch from the country's constitution on the day of his accession. From 1939, the Empire and Commonwealth, except Ireland, was at war with Nazi Germany. War with Italy and Japan followed in 1940 and 1941, respectively. Though Britain and its allies were ultimately victorious in 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union rose as pre-eminent world powers and the British Empire declined. After the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, George remained as king of both countries, but the title Emperor of India was abandoned in June 1948. Ireland formally declared itself a republic and left the Commonwealth in 1949, and India became a republic within the Commonwealth the following year. George adopted the new title of Head of the Commonwealth. He was beset by health problems in the later years of his reign. His elder daughter, Elizabeth, succeeded him.

qas: question: What month and day was the death of Prince Albert?
answers: text: 14 December
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question: Who was Prince Albert's great grandmother?
answers: text: Queen Victoria
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question: What was Prince Albert's nickname?
answers: text: Bertie
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question: In which church was Prince Albert baptized?
answers: text: St. Mary Magdalene's Church
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question: What was the name of the Duchess of York?
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question: What was the name of the Duke of York?
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question: Who was the Duchess of Teck?
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question: In what year was Queen Victoria crowned?
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question: On what date did the Prince of Wales write to the Duke of York?
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question: Which ship did Alber train on in 1913?
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question: What kind of tendencies did North America have?
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question: In what year did Albert leave the military?
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context: His birthday (14 December 1895) was the 34th anniversary of the death of his great-grandfather, Prince Albert, the Prince Consort. Uncertain of how the Prince Consort's widow, Queen Victoria, would take the news of the birth, the Prince of Wales wrote to the Duke of York that the Queen had been "rather distressed". Two days later, he wrote again: "I really think it would gratify her if you yourself proposed the name Albert to her". Queen Victoria was mollified by the proposal to name the new baby Albert, and wrote to the Duchess of York: "I am all impatience to see the new one, born on such a sad day but rather more dear to me, especially as he will be called by that dear name which is a byword for all that is great and good". Consequently, he was baptised "Albert Frederick Arthur George" at St. Mary Magdalene's Church near Sandringham three months later.[a] As a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he was known formally as His Highness Prince Albert of York from birth. Within the family, he was known informally as "Bertie". His maternal grandmother, the Duchess of Teck, did not like the first name the baby had been given, and she wrote prophetically that she hoped the last name "may supplant the less favoured one".

qas: question: Which ship did Alber train on in 1913?
answers: text: HMS Cumberland
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question: How many months did Albert spend in the Mediterranean in 1913?
answers: text: three months
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question: Which war did Albert serve in?
answers: text: First World War
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question: Who gave Albert the nickname of "Mr Johnson"?
answers: text: fellow officers
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question: What was the cause of Albert's ill health in 1917?
answers: text: duodenal ulcer
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question: In what year did Albert leave the military?
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question: What was one of the months Albert served in the Mediterranean?
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question: In which month in 1913 did Albert start serving on the HMS Cumberland?
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question: In what year did Albert start serving on the Collingwood?
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question: What rank did Albert have while serving on the HMS Cumberland?
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question: What year did Princess Margaret die?
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question: Who was the youngest daughter of Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne?
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question: Against who did Britain declare war against in 1939?
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context: Albert spent the first six months of 1913 on the training ship HMS Cumberland in the West Indies and on the east coast of Canada. He was rated as a midshipman aboard HMS Collingwood on 15 September 1913, and spent three months in the Mediterranean. His fellow officers gave him the nickname "Mr. Johnson". One year after his commission, he began service in the First World War. He was mentioned in despatches for his action as a turret officer aboard Collingwood in the Battle of Jutland (31 May – 1 June 1916), an indecisive engagement with the German navy that was the largest naval action of the war. He did not see further combat, largely because of ill health caused by a duodenal ulcer, for which he had an operation in November 1917.

qas: question: What position was Albert appointed at Cranwell?
answers: text: Officer in Charge of Boys at the Royal Naval Air Service
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question: Which number squadron was Albert appointed commanding officer in 1918?
answers: text: 4
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question: What year did Albert become a RAF pilot?
answers: text: 1919
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question: Who was the king of Belgium  in 1918?
answers: text: King Albert
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question: In what year was the Royal Air Force established?
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question: Where was the Royal Navy's headquarters?
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question: On what date did the World War end?
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question:  On what date in November 1918 was the Independent Air Force disbanded?
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question: In what year did King Albert have to leave Belgium?
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question: Who established the Oireachtas?
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question: What day did the Oireachtas pass an act that started to establish Ireland as a republic?
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question: Who was the President of the United States in 1939?
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context: In February 1918, he was appointed Officer in Charge of Boys at the Royal Naval Air Service's training establishment at Cranwell. With the establishment of the Royal Air Force two months later and the transfer of Cranwell from Navy to Air Force control, he transferred from the Royal Navy to the Royal Air Force. He was appointed Officer Commanding Number 4 Squadron of the Boys' Wing at Cranwell until August 1918, before reporting to the RAF's Cadet School at St Leonards-on-Sea where he completed a fortnight's training and took command of a squadron on the Cadet Wing. He was the first member of the royal family to be certified as a fully qualified pilot. During the closing weeks of the war, he served on the staff of the RAF's Independent Air Force at its headquarters in Nancy, France. Following the disbanding of the Independent Air Force in November 1918, he remained on the Continent for two months as a staff officer with the Royal Air Force until posted back to Britain. He accompanied the Belgian monarch King Albert on his triumphal reentry into Brussels on 22 November. Prince Albert qualified as an RAF pilot on 31 July 1919 and gained a promotion to squadron leader on the following day.

qas: question: What did Albert study in Trinity College?
answers: text: history, economics and civics
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question: What was Albert's nickname as he toured coal mines, factories, and railyards?
answers: text: Industrial Prince
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question: Who is Albert's older brother?
answers: text: Edward
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question: Which sport was Albert proficient at?
answers: text: tennis
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question: Which society was Albert the president of?
answers: text: Industrial Welfare Society
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question: Who was Albert's father?
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question: In what year was Albert elected as the President of the Industrial Welfare Society?
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question: Who was one of the players Albert lost to in his match at Wimbledon?
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question: In what year did Louis Greig begin playing tennis?
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question: What sport did Edward enjoy?
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question: What year did Princess Margaret die?
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question: Who was Prince Albert's great grandmother?
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question: Who instructed the King to only shake hands with whites in South Africa?
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context: In October 1919, Albert went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied history, economics and civics for a year. On 4 June 1920, he was created Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killarney. He began to take on more royal duties. He represented his father, and toured coal mines, factories, and railyards. Through such visits he acquired the nickname of the "Industrial Prince". His stammer, and his embarrassment over it, together with his tendency to shyness, caused him to appear much less impressive than his older brother, Edward. However, he was physically active and enjoyed playing tennis. He played at Wimbledon in the Men's Doubles with Louis Greig in 1926, losing in the first round. He developed an interest in working conditions, and was President of the Industrial Welfare Society. His series of annual summer camps for boys between 1921 and 1939 brought together boys from different social backgrounds.

qas: question: Who was Albert infatuated with?
answers: text: Sheila, Lady Loughborough
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question: Who was the youngest daughter of Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne?
answers: text: Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
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question: How many times did Elizabeth reject Albert's proposal?
answers: text: twice
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question: Who were royals usually expected to marry?
answers: text: fellow royals
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question: Who was the Australian socialite Sheila married to?
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question: What was the name of Lady Elizabeth's mother?
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question: In what year did Albert first meet Lady Elizabeth?
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question: What nationality was Lady Elizabeth?
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question: In what year did Albert and Elizabeth marry?
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question: In what year did Albert leave the military?
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question: Who was the prime minister of Canada in 1939?
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question: In what year was Lord Simonds made the Lord Chancellor?
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context: In a time when royals were expected to marry fellow royals, it was unusual that Albert had a great deal of freedom in choosing a prospective wife. An infatuation with the already-married Australian socialite Sheila, Lady Loughborough, came to an end in April 1920 when the King, with the promise of the dukedom of York, persuaded Albert to stop seeing her. That year, he met for the first time since childhood Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. He became determined to marry her. She rejected his proposal twice, in 1921 and 1922, reportedly because she was reluctant to make the sacrifices necessary to become a member of the royal family. In the words of Lady Elizabeth's mother, Albert would be "made or marred" by his choice of wife. After a protracted courtship, Elizabeth agreed to marry him.

qas: question: Why did Albert fear speaking in public?
answers: text: his stammer
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question: Who helped Albert improve in public speaking?
answers: text: Lionel Logue
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question: What did Albert play partnered with a black man?
answers: text: doubles tennis
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question: What did the Duke open in Australia in 1927? 
answers: text: Parliament House
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question: What was the name of the Duchess?
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question: In what month did Albert visit Jamaica?
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question: In what month did Albert begin his tour of the empire?
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question: On what date did Albert speak at the new Parliament House in Canberra, Australia?
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question: In what country is Wembley?
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question: What is one of the Low Countries?
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question: Who was Albert infatuated with?
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question: What year was Britain and allies victorious in the war?
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context: Because of his stammer, Albert dreaded public speaking. After his closing speech at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley on 31 October 1925, one which was an ordeal for both him and his listeners, he began to see Lionel Logue, an Australian-born speech therapist. The Duke and Logue practised breathing exercises, and the Duchess rehearsed with him patiently. Subsequently, he was able to speak with less hesitation. With his delivery improved, the Duke opened the new Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, during a tour of the empire in 1927. His journey by sea to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji took him via Jamaica, where Albert played doubles tennis partnered with a black man, which was unusual at the time and taken locally as a display of equality between races.

qas: question: What was Elizabeth's nickname?
answers: text: Lilibet
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question: Who were the Duke and Duchess of York's children?
answers: text: Elizabeth (called "Lilibet" by the family), and Margaret
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question: What was the name of Duke of York's London residence?
answers: text: 145 Piccadilly
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question: Who advised against the Duke becoming the Governor General of Canada? 
answers: text: J. H. Thomas
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question: What position did J. H. Thomas hold?
answers: text: Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
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question: In what year was Elizabeth born?
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question: In what year was Margaret born?
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question: In what year did R.B. Bennett become the Canadian Prime Minister?
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question: In what year was King George V crowned?
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question: At what address in London did J.H. Thomas live?
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question: Who did Edward replaces as the King of England?
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question: Who was the President of the United States in 1939?
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question: In what year was Franklin D. Roosevelt made president?
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context: The Duke and Duchess of York had two children: Elizabeth (called "Lilibet" by the family), and Margaret. The Duke and Duchess and their two daughters lived a relatively sheltered life at their London residence, 145 Piccadilly. They were a close and loving family. One of the few stirs arose when the Canadian Prime Minister, R. B. Bennett, considered the Duke for Governor General of Canada in 1931—a proposal that King George V rejected on the advice of the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, J. H. Thomas.

qas: question: Why was Albert the heir presumptive to the throne?
answers: text: Edward was unmarried and had no children
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question: What was wrong with Edward marrying Wallis Simpson?
answers: text: divorced woman with two living ex-husbands
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question: What did Edward do to marry Wallis Simpson?
answers: text: abdication
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question: Who is Edward's mother?
answers: text: Queen Mary
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question: How did Edward react when he became heir to the throne?
answers: text: broke down and sobbed like a child
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question: Who was Wallis Simpson's second husband?
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question: How many children did Albert have in 1936?
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question: On what date did Albert become king?
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question: On what date was Edward made the king of England?
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question: Who did Edward replaces as the King of England?
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question: What was the name of the first act?
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question: In what year did the historian John Grigg accuse George VI of violating the constitution?
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question: On what date did the Prince of Wales write to the Duke of York?
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context: As Edward was unmarried and had no children, Albert was the heir presumptive to the throne. Less than a year later, on 11 December 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry his mistress, Wallis Simpson, who was divorced from her first husband and divorcing her second. Edward had been advised by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin that he could not remain king and marry a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands. Edward chose abdication in preference to abandoning his marriage plans. Thus Albert became king, a position he was reluctant to accept. The day before the abdication, he went to London to see his mother, Queen Mary. He wrote in his diary, "When I told her what had happened, I broke down and sobbed like a child."

qas: question: What is the Oireachtas?
answers: text: the parliament of the Irish Free State
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question: What did the Oireachtas remove from the Irish constitution?
answers: text: all direct mention of the monarch
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question: Which act gave the monarch limited authority in Ireland?
answers: text: External Relations Act
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question: What day did the Oireachtas pass an act that started to establish Ireland as a republic?
answers: text: day of the abdication
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question: Who abdicated?
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question: What was the name of the first act?
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question: Who established the Oireachtas?
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question: Where was the Commonwealth headquartered?
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question: Who was Winston Churchill's predecessor?
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question: What rank did Albert have while serving on the HMS Cumberland?
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question: In what year did Elizabeth succeed King George?
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context: On the day of the abdication, the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Irish Free State, removed all direct mention of the monarch from the Irish constitution. The next day, it passed the External Relations Act, which gave the monarch limited authority (strictly on the advice of the government) to appoint diplomatic representatives for Ireland and to be involved in the making of foreign treaties. The two acts made the Irish Free State a republic in essence without removing its links to the Commonwealth.

qas: question: What regnal name did Albert adopt?
answers: text: George VI
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question: What title did Albert give Edward?
answers: text: His Royal Highness The Duke of Windsor
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question: What did Albert bestow onto his wife on his 41st birthday?
answers: text: the Order of the Garter
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question: Which two residences did Albert buy from Edward?
answers: text: Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House
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question: What birthday did George IV's queen consort have before being invested with the Order of the Garter?
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question: What was Edward's regnal name?
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question: Who did Edward succeed as king?
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question: What royal residence did George VI own?
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question: In what city is Sandringham House?
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question: Who was the Prime Minister of South Africa in 1947?
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question: What city is Buckingham Palace in?
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question: In what year did Jan Smuts become Prime Minister?
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context: Albert assumed the regnal name "George VI" to emphasise continuity with his father and restore confidence in the monarchy. The beginning of George VI's reign was taken up by questions surrounding his predecessor and brother, whose titles, style and position were uncertain. He had been introduced as "His Royal Highness Prince Edward" for the abdication broadcast, but George VI felt that by abdicating and renouncing the succession Edward had lost the right to bear royal titles, including "Royal Highness". In settling the issue, George's first act as king was to confer upon his brother the title and style "His Royal Highness The Duke of Windsor", but the Letters Patent creating the dukedom prevented any wife or children from bearing royal styles. George VI was also forced to buy from Edward the royal residences of Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House, as these were private properties and did not pass to George VI automatically. Three days after his accession, on his 41st birthday, he invested his wife, the new queen consort, with the Order of the Garter.

qas: question: What day did George VI become coronated?
answers: text: 12 May 1937
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question: Who attended the coronation that was a break from tradition?
answers: text: Queen Mary
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question: How many overseas tours happened after the coronation to France and North America?
answers: text: Two
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question: In which city are Durbars usually held?
answers: text: Delhi
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question: On what date did the Second World War start?
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question: On what date did Edward abdicate the throne?
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question: On what date did George VI  begin his visit to France?
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question: What continent is France on?
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question: In what month in 1944 did the King meet Sir Alan Brooke?
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question: In what month did Albert visit Jamaica?
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question: What month and day was the death of Prince Albert?
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context: George VI's coronation took place on 12 May 1937, the date previously intended for Edward's coronation. In a break with tradition, Queen Mary attended the ceremony in a show of support for her son. There was no Durbar held in Delhi for George VI, as had occurred for his father, as the cost would have been a burden to the government of India. Rising Indian nationalism made the welcome that the royal couple would have received likely to be muted at best, and a prolonged absence from Britain would have been undesirable in the tense period before the Second World War. Two overseas tours were undertaken, to France and to North America, both of which promised greater strategic advantages in the event of war.

qas: question: Which prime minister was the King constitutionally bound to support?
answers: text: Neville Chamberlain
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question: Which agreement was signed in 1938?
answers: text: Munich Agreement
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question: The balcony in which palace is famous for being where the royal family makes appearances?
answers: text: Buckingham Palace
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question: Which historian commented that the king's act in associating with Chamberlain as unconstitutional?
answers: text: John Grigg
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question: In what year did  George IV reign begin?
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question: What city is Buckingham Palace in?
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question: In what year did the historian John Grigg accuse George VI of violating the constitution?
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question: What was the House of Commons policy towards Hitler?
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question: In what year did King Albert have to leave Belgium?
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question: In which city are Durbars usually held?
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question: What was the Queen's name?
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context: The growing likelihood of war in Europe dominated the early reign of George VI. The King was constitutionally bound to support Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler. However, when the King and Queen greeted Chamberlain on his return from negotiating the Munich Agreement in 1938, they invited him to appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with them. This public association of the monarchy with a politician was exceptional, as balcony appearances were traditionally restricted to the royal family. While broadly popular among the general public, Chamberlain's policy towards Hitler was the subject of some opposition in the House of Commons, which led historian John Grigg to describe the King's behaviour in associating himself so prominently with a politician as "the most unconstitutional act by a British sovereign in the present century".

qas: question: Which two countries did the King and Queen tour in 1939?
answers: text: Canada and the United States
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question: Who was the prime minister of Canada in 1939?
answers: text: William Lyon Mackenzie King
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question: What title was the king and queen presented with when touring Canada?
answers: text: King and Queen of Canada
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question: What was Roper's position?
answers: text: U.S. Ambassador to Canada
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question: What did the Statute of Westminster do?
answers: text: gave full sovereignty to the British Dominions
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question: Who is Edward's mother?
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question: What did Albert bestow onto his wife on his 41st birthday?
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question: What year was Britain and allies victorious in the war?
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context: In May and June 1939, the King and Queen toured Canada and the United States. From Ottawa, the royal couple were accompanied throughout by Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, to present themselves in North America as King and Queen of Canada. George was the first reigning monarch of Canada to visit North America, although he had been to Canada previously as Prince Albert and as Duke of York. Both Governor General of Canada Lord Tweedsmuir and Mackenzie King hoped that the King's presence in Canada would demonstrate the principles of the Statute of Westminster 1931, which gave full sovereignty to the British Dominions. On 19 May, George VI personally accepted and approved the Letter of Credence of the new U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Daniel Calhoun Roper; gave Royal Assent to nine parliamentary bills; and ratified two international treaties with the Great Seal of Canada. The official royal tour historian, Gustave Lanctot, wrote "the Statute of Westminster had assumed full reality" and George gave a speech emphasising "the free and equal association of the nations of the Commonwealth".

qas: question: What kind of tendencies did North America have?
answers: text: isolationist tendencies
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question: Who was George's predecessor?
answers: text: Edward VIII
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question: Who was the President of the United States in 1939?
answers: text: President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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question: Which fair was happening in New York in 1939?
answers: text: 1939 New York World's Fair
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question:  In what year did Edward Viii abdicate?
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question: In what city is the White House?
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question: In what year was Franklin D. Roosevelt made president?
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question: In what year was George crowned?
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question: On what date was Queen Elizabeth crowned?
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question: What was George's younger daughters name?
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question:  On what date in November 1918 was the Independent Air Force disbanded?
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context: The trip was intended to soften the strong isolationist tendencies among the North American public with regard to the developing tensions in Europe. Although the aim of the tour was mainly political, to shore up Atlantic support for the United Kingdom in any future war, the King and Queen were enthusiastically received by the public. The fear that George would be compared unfavourably to his predecessor, Edward VIII, was dispelled. They visited the 1939 New York World's Fair and stayed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House and at his private estate at Hyde Park, New York. A strong bond of friendship was forged between the King and Queen and the President during the tour, which had major significance in the relations between the United States and the United Kingdom through the ensuing war years.

qas: question: Against who did Britain declare war against in 1939?
answers: text: Nazi Germany
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question: Which city did the king and queen stay in even with the bombing threats?
answers: text: London
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question: How many people died on the first German raid on London?
answers: text: one thousand civilians
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question: What year did the King's brother die in service?
answers: text: 1942
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question: What was the Queen's name?
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question: In what month and year did Eleanor Roosevelt visit London?
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question: On what date in August 1942 was Prince George killed?
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question: How many civilians were killed in the East End on 7 September 1940?
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question: On what date in September 1939 did Britain declare war on Nazi Germany?
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question: How many times did Elizabeth reject Albert's proposal?
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question: Where was the Commonwealth headquartered?
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question: Where was Princess Margaret when she died?
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context: In September 1939, Britain and the self-governing Dominions, but not Ireland, declared war on Nazi Germany. George VI and his wife resolved to stay in London, despite German bombing raids. They officially stayed in Buckingham Palace throughout the war, although they usually spent nights at Windsor Castle. The first German raid on London, on 7 September 1940, killed about one thousand civilians, mostly in the East End. On 13 September, the King and Queen narrowly avoided death when two German bombs exploded in a courtyard at Buckingham Palace while they were there. In defiance, the Queen famously declared: "I am glad we have been bombed. It makes me feel we can look the East End in the face". The royal family were portrayed as sharing the same dangers and deprivations as the rest of the country. They were subject to rationing restrictions, and U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt remarked on the rationed food served and the limited bathwater that was permitted during a stay at the unheated and boarded-up Palace. In August 1942, the King's brother, Prince George, Duke of Kent, was killed on active service.

qas: question: Who was Winston Churchill's predecessor?
answers: text: Neville Chamberlain
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question: What position did Churchill hold?
answers: text: Prime Minister
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question: What day of the week did Churchill and the King meet?
answers: text: Tuesday
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question: Who did Churchill appoint to Cabinet that the King did not like?
answers: text: Lord Beaverbrook
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question: Who was Lord Halifax in 1940?
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question: Who was Lord Beaverbrook in 1940?
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question: In what month and year did the war start?
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question: Who replaced Winston Churchill as Prime Minister?
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question: What was the name of the Duchess?
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question: In what year did George VI die?
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question: What improved when the King and Queen visited different military sites?
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context: In 1940, Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister, though personally George would have preferred to appoint Lord Halifax. After the King's initial dismay over Churchill's appointment of Lord Beaverbrook to the Cabinet, he and Churchill developed "the closest personal relationship in modern British history between a monarch and a Prime Minister". Every Tuesday for four and a half years from September 1940, the two men met privately for lunch to discuss the war in secret and with frankness.

qas: question: What country did the King and Queen visit in July 1944?
answers: text: Italy
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question: When did the King and Queen visit North Africa and Malta?
answers: text: June 1943
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question: What improved when the King and Queen visited different military sites?
answers: text: morale
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question: In what month in 1944 did the King meet Sir Alan Brooke?
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question: What is one of the Low Countries?
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question: In what year was Bernard Montgomery made the Field Marshal?
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question: In what year did British military forces enter Southern Italy?
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question: In what year was Sir Alan brooke made the Chief of the Imperial General Staff?
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question: On what date was Queen Elizabeth crowned?
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question: What royal residence did George VI own?
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question: In what year did the historian John Grigg accuse George VI of violating the constitution?
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context: Throughout the war, the King and Queen provided morale-boosting visits throughout the United Kingdom, visiting bomb sites, munitions factories, and troops. The King visited military forces abroad in France in December 1939, North Africa and Malta in June 1943, Normandy in June 1944, southern Italy in July 1944, and the Low Countries in October 1944. Their high public profile and apparently indefatigable determination secured their place as symbols of national resistance. At a social function in 1944, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir Alan Brooke, revealed that every time he met Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery he thought he was after his job. The King replied: "You should worry, when I meet him, I always think he's after mine!"

qas: question: What is the association of independent states in Britain called?
answers: text: the Commonwealth
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question: What two dominions did British India become?
answers: text: India and Pakistan
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question: What country left the Commonwealth in January 1948?
answers: text: Burma
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question: What year was the Republic of Ireland formed?
answers: text: 1949
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question: In what year did the Second World War end?
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question: In what month in 1950 did George VI cease being the King of India?
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question: In what month in 1949 did the Republic of Ireland leave the Commonwealth?
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question: In what year did Clement Attlee become the minister?
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question: In what year did George VI die?
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question: What was the name of the Duchess?
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question: What was the Queen's name?
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question: What did the Duke open in Australia in 1927? 
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context: George VI's reign saw the acceleration of the dissolution of the British Empire. The Statute of Westminster 1931 had already acknowledged the evolution of the Dominions into separate sovereign states. The process of transformation from an empire to a voluntary association of independent states, known as the Commonwealth, gathered pace after the Second World War. During the ministry of Clement Attlee, British India became the two independent dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947. George relinquished the title of Emperor of India, and became King of India and King of Pakistan instead. In 1950 he ceased to be King of India when it became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, but he remained King of Pakistan until his death and India recognised his new title of Head of the Commonwealth. Other countries left the Commonwealth, such as Burma in January 1948, Palestine (divided between Israel and the Arab states) in May 1948 and the Republic of Ireland in 1949.

qas: question: Who was the Prime Minister of South Africa in 1947?
answers: text: Jan Smuts
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question: What were the King's South African bodyguards referred as? 
answers: text: the Gestapo
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question: Who instructed the King to only shake hands with whites in South Africa?
answers: text: South African government
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question: In what year did Jan Smuts become Prime Minister?
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question: Whose South African government instituted a strict policy of racial segregation?
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question: What race were the South African bodyguards?
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question: In what year did George become King?
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question: What was the name of the Duchess?
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question: What was the name of the Duchess of York?
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question: What royal residence did George VI own?
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context: In 1947, the King and his family toured Southern Africa. The Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, Jan Smuts, was facing an election and hoped to make political capital out of the visit. George was appalled, however, when instructed by the South African government to shake hands only with whites, and referred to his South African bodyguards as "the Gestapo". Despite the tour, Smuts lost the election the following year, and the new government instituted a strict policy of racial segregation.

qas: question: What kind of cancer did the King develop?
answers: text: lung cancer
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question: What developed in the King's right leg that prevented him from touring Australia?
answers: text: arterial blockage
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question: What treatment helped prevent the loss of the King's right leg?
answers: text: right lumbar sympathectomy
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question: Who was the King's heir presumptive?
answers: text: Elizabeth
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question: Who was Elizabeth's spouse?
answers: text: Duke of Edinburgh
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question: Who performed the right lumbar sympathectomy on George?
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question: On what date in March 1949 did George undergo a right lumbar sympathectomy procedure?
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question: What was George's younger daughters name?
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question: Who was the Duke of Edinburgh?
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question: In what year was Lord Simonds made the Lord Chancellor?
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question: In what year was George crowned?
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question: What was the House of Commons policy towards Hitler?
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question: In what year did Albert leave the military?
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context: The stress of the war had taken its toll on the King's health, exacerbated by his heavy smoking and subsequent development of lung cancer among other ailments, including arteriosclerosis and thromboangiitis obliterans. A planned tour of Australia and New Zealand was postponed after the King suffered an arterial blockage in his right leg, which threatened the loss of the leg and was treated with a right lumbar sympathectomy in March 1949. His elder daughter Elizabeth, the heir presumptive, took on more royal duties as her father's health deteriorated. The delayed tour was re-organised, with Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, taking the place of the King and Queen. The King was well enough to open the Festival of Britain in May 1951, but on 23 September 1951, his left lung was removed by Clement Price Thomas after a malignant tumour was found. In October 1951, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh went on a month-long tour of Canada; the trip had been delayed for a week due to the King's illness. At the State Opening of Parliament in November, the King's speech from the throne was read for him by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Simonds. His Christmas broadcast of 1951 was recorded in sections, and then edited together.

qas: question: What church did the King's funeral take place on the 15th?
answers: text: Windsor Castle
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question: What year did Queen Elizabeth die?
answers: text: 2002
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question: What year did Princess Margaret die?
answers: text: 2002
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question: In which chapel does King George's body lie in today? 
answers: text: King George VI Memorial Chapel
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question: In what city is Westminster Hall?
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question: In what city is the King George VI Memorial Chapel?
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question: Where was Princess Margaret when she died?
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question: On what date was Queen Elizabeth crowned?
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question: Where was Queen Elizabeth crowned?
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question: In what year did Jan Smuts become Prime Minister?
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question: In what year did the historian John Grigg accuse George VI of violating the constitution?
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question: On what date in September 1939 did Britain declare war on Nazi Germany?
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context: From 9 February for two days his coffin rested in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, before lying in state at Westminster Hall from 11 February. His funeral took place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on the 15th. He was interred initially in the Royal Vault until he was transferred to the King George VI Memorial Chapel inside St. George's on 26 March 1969. In 2002, fifty years after his death, the remains of his widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the ashes of his younger daughter Princess Margaret, who both died that year, were interred in the chapel alongside him.

qas: question: How high was public faith in the monarchy when King George assumed the throne?
answers: text: low
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question: What position did George Hardie hold?
answers: text: Labour Member of Parliament
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question: Who was George VI's brother?
answers: text: Edward
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question: In what year did George Hardie become a member of Parliament?
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question: In what year did the war end?
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question: In what year did George VI write a letter to his brother Edward saying he assumed "a rocking throne"?
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question: Who abdicated in 1936?
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question: Who was the Prime Minister of South Africa in 1947?
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question: What was the name of the Duchess?
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question: What was the name of Lady Elizabeth's mother?
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context: In the words of Labour Member of Parliament George Hardie, the abdication crisis of 1936 did "more for republicanism than fifty years of propaganda". George VI wrote to his brother Edward that in the aftermath of the abdication he had reluctantly assumed "a rocking throne", and tried "to make it steady again". He became king at a point when public faith in the monarchy was at a low ebb. During his reign his people endured the hardships of war, and imperial power was eroded. However, as a dutiful family man and by showing personal courage, he succeeded in restoring the popularity of the monarchy.