what did king george vi die of?
Lung cancer
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 George never fully recovered . In his final year , he was occasionally administered oxygen . The death of his favourite sister Victoria in December 1935 depressed him deeply . On the evening of 15 January 1936 , the King took to his bedroom at Sandringham House complaining of a cold ; he remained in the room until his death . He became gradually weaker , drifting in and out of consciousness . Prime Minister Baldwin later said : 

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 On 31 January 1952 , despite advice from those close to him , the King went to London Airport to see off Princess Elizabeth , who was going on her tour of Australia via Kenya . On the morning of 6 February , George VI was found dead in bed at Sandringham House in Norfolk . He had died from a coronary thrombosis in his sleep at the age of 56 . His daughter Elizabeth flew back to Britain from Kenya as Queen Elizabeth II . 

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 By the spring of 1830 , George 's imminent end was apparent . Attacks of breathlessness due to dropsy forced him to sleep upright in a chair , and doctors frequently tapped his abdomen to drain excess fluid . He was admired for clinging doggedly to life despite his obvious decline . He dictated his will in May and became very devout in his final months , confessing to an archdeacon that he repented of his early dissolute life , but hoped mercy would be shown to him as he had always tried to do the best for his subjects . At about half @-@ past three in the morning of 26 June 1830 at Windsor Castle , he reportedly called out " Good God , what is this ? " , clasped his page 's hand , said " my boy , this is death " , and died . An autopsy conducted by his physicians revealed he had died from upper gastrointestinal bleeding resulting from the rupture of a blood vessel in his stomach . A large tumour " the size of an orange " was found attached to his bladder , and he had an enlarged heart surrounded by a large fat deposit and heavily calcified heart valves . He was buried in St George 's Chapel , Windsor Castle , on 15 July . 

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 King George V died on 20 January 1936 , and Edward ascended the throne as King Edward VIII . The next day , he broke royal protocol by watching the proclamation of his own accession from a window of St James 's Palace in the company of the then still @-@ married Simpson . He became the first monarch of the British Empire to fly in an aircraft when he flew from Sandringham to London for his Accession Council . 

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 King died at a nursing home in his native Philadelphia in 1965 , two days short of his 92nd birthday . The Times newspaper in the UK ran an obituary for him , which quoted Plum Warner as saying that : " Had he been an Englishman or an Australian , he would have been even more famous than he was . " 
