King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth seen here the day of their coronation, 12 May, 1937, with their daughters Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II. George VI, 1895  1952, King of the United Kingdom. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, 1900  2002. Queen consort of the United Kingdom as the wife of King George VI. Princess Margaret, later Countess of Snowdon, 1930  2002. Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, born 1926. From The Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, published 1937.