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
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott boats, foreshadowing the Lady's later death. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1916. It was sold from the estate of J. G. Griffiths at Hampton's in 1923 for 300 guineas, and passed through the hands of the art dealer Arthur de Casseres. It was owned by Mr and Mrs Frederick Cowan, and inherited by their great-niece, the wife of Canadian engineer Philip Berney Jackson, who donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1971. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott is