The queen mother was not the queen, just married to the king, elizabeth II father. Elizabeth II was the eldest of king george V children, all daughters. Had king george v had any sons regardless of whether they were younger than elizabeth, they would have succeded him after his death.
Because the king did not have any sons.
Elizabeth was the elder daughter of King George VI who had no sons. As there were no sons the laws of succession allow for a female to succeed.
Queen Victoria had nine children. Her eldest son became King Edward VII of England. King Edward had six children. His one of his sons became King George V of England. King George's eldest son abdicated the throne and thus, the second son became king. This man was King George VI and was the present Queen Elizabeth's father. Therefore, Queen Victoria is the great-great grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
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King George VI was the British monarch, and father of the current Queen. Elizabeth II took the throne when George VI died in 1953. George VI was not supposed to get to be the king. British kings like to have at least two sons - "the heir and the spare". George VI was the spare, the younger brother of Edward VIII. When their father, George V, died in 1937, Edward was King for less than a year, but abdicated the throne so he could marry the woman he loved. He could not remain King and marry her, as she had three strikes against her - she was a commoner, an American, and divorced. So Edward was the man who gave up an Empire, for Wallis Warfield Simpson.
George IV didnt have any sons, but he had a daughter named Charlotte who died in in 1817.
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George Foreman
never. the King who abdicated was Edward VIII, on 11 December 1936. King Edward VII died in 1910. He was succeeded by King George V. King Georges' sons were Edward VIII & King George VI, father of Queen Elizabeth II