George VI the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, J. H. Thomas. King George V had severe reservations about Prince Edward, saying "After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months" and "I pray God that my eldest son will never marry and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne." On 20 January 1936, George V died and Edward ascended the throne as King Edward VIII. In the Vigil of the Princes, Prince Albert and his three brothers took a shift standing guard over their father's body as it lay in state, in a closed
The 12½p Buytonic Boy the strip was retitled The Buytonic Boy, variously attributing to BB: Buytonic Boy and The Buytonic Boy starring Steve Ford. It would later be retitled, more permanently, to Super Steve, and, after that, Super Steve vs NME Nasties, in which readers would write to the NME and suggest ways of defeating Steve (which always failed). He was also known for three weeks in 1984 as "W4" during a short-lived spell when "Whizzer and Chips" code-number titled its characters in an attempt to attract a teenage audience. The 12½p Buytonic Boy The 12½p Buytonic Boy was a British comic strip, created