Is king George the sixths first name was Albert why didn he become King Albert?
Basically because his father was King George V, a well-loved king, and it would emphasise continuity with the monarchy as it had been, after all the controversy over King Edward VIII. George was one of his names so he was perfectly entitled to use it (he was Albert Frederick Arthur George) and a British king’s “regnal name” can be anything he chooses, just the same as with the pope. Eddi makes an excellent point – it is not at all clear whether our next king will be King Charles III. King Charles I came the nearest to bringing down the monarchy that any king ever has (he caused the English Civil War and as a result is responsible for the only time that England ever experimented with being a republic), and King Charles II was a closet catholic (NOT a good thing in English politics at that time) and a compulsive womaniser. So many English Dukes are descended from his children with his many mistresses. So there is some informed speculation that he might choose to be King George VII instea
