List of Titles and Honours of King George VI - Royal Titles and Styles

Royal Titles and Styles

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

• 14 December 1895 – 17 July 1917: His Highness Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke in Saxony

United Kingdom

• 14 December 1895 – 28 May 1898: His Highness Prince Albert of York
• 28 May 1898 – 22 January 1901: His Royal Highness Prince Albert of York
• 22 January 1901 – 9 November 1901: His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Cornwall and York
• 9 November 1901 – 6 May 1910: His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Wales
• 6 May 1910 – 3 June 1920: His Royal Highness The Prince Albert
• 3 June 1920 – 11 December 1936: His Royal Highness The Duke of York
• 11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952: His Majesty The King
• 11 December 1936 – 14 August 1947 (for British India): His Majesty The King–Emperor

Isle of Man

• 11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952: Lord of Mann

Until 28 May 1898, George was styled His Highness by virtue of both his British and Saxon titles. After his elevation in Britain to Royal Highness that style masked his lower Saxon style. From his brother's ascension to the throne, on 20 January 1936, until his own accession, on 11 December 1936, Prince Albert held the style and title of His Royal Highness The Prince Albert, Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killarney.

Although George acceeded to the thrones of seven countries in 1936 (Australia, Canada, India, the Irish Free State, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom), he was only accorded a title by law in the UK. At that time, the official style and title in full was: His Majesty George the Sixth, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India (in Latin: George VI, Dei Gratia Magnae Britanniae, Hiberniae et terrarum transmarinarum quae in ditione sunt Britannica Rex, Fidei Defensor, Indiae Imperator. He held many other positions, but these did not form part of his formal title, e.g. Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sovereign of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Sovereign of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Sovereign of the Distinguished Service Order, Sovereign of the Imperial Service Order, Sovereign of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Sovereign of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Sovereign of the Order of British India, Sovereign of the Indian Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of Burma, Sovereign of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, Sovereign of the Royal Family Order of King Edward VII, Sovereign of the Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Sovereign of the Royal Victorian Order, Sovereign of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.

After India gained full legal independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, George's title was altered to suit the dissolution of his position as Emperor of India, becoming George the Sixth, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith (in Latin: George VI, Dei Gratia Magnae Britanniae, Hiberniae et terrarum transmarinarum quae in ditione sunt Britannica Rex, Fidei Defensor). For a period in May 1929, George was also entitled to be called His Grace The Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.