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
John's vision of the Son of Man only identifiable physical description of Jesus in any form in the Biblical canon. John, the author of Revelation, was exiled to the island of Patmos, possibly during the reign of the emperor Domitian. He says that on the Lord's Day he was "in the Spirit", and heard a loud voice "like a trumpet" (). When he turned around, he saw this Son of Man figure. In , the figure whom John sees identifies himself as "the First and the Last," who "was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever" — a reference to Jesus' resurrection. Some of