How the Evening Standard reported the death of King George VI in 1952 and King George V in 1936
(Picture: Ross Lydall)When King George VI died in February 1952, the Evening Standard was there to capture the news.
An original copy of the newspaper from Wednesday February 6, 1952, shows how the Standard – one of the first to reveal that King George VI had died overnight in his sleep – quickly published a 12-page special edition later that day.
