The households of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (known, after the death of her husband, as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) were made up of office-holders and staff supporting their work.

The future George VI (1895–1952) was the second son of George V. He was created Duke of York in 1920 and married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2002) in 1923. The Duke succeeded to the throne following the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII (whose reign had lasted just under a year). As King, George VI inherited his a sovereign's Household from his brother; when the new Household was announced in March 1937, many of the office-holders were the same as had been appointed to the Household of Edward VIII seven months earlier.

As Queen, Elizabeth maintained her own Household (as was then traditional for a consort). Her Household was announced in 1937, initially consisting of a Mistress of the Robes, four Ladies of the Bedchamber, four Women of the Bedchamber (plus one 'extra'), her own Lord Chamberlain and a Treasurer. After the death of her husband in 1952, her Household was known as the Household of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Household of the Duke of York (1920–1923) and of the Duke and Duchess of York (1923–1936)

Comptroller 1920–1924: Wing Cdr Louis Greig 1924–1936: Capt. Basil Vernon Brooke (Comptroller and Equerry)

Deputy Comptroller 1936: Cdr Harold Campbell (Deputy Comptroller and Equerry)

Private Secretary 1921–: Lt Col. Ronald Waterhouse (Private Secretary and Equerry) 1926–1933: Patrick Kirkman Hodgson, Esq. 1933–1936: Cdr Harold Campbell (Private Secretary and Equerry) 1936: Sir Eric Charles Miéville

Assistant Private Secretary 1930–1933: Cdr Harold Campbell (Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry)

Equerry 1923–1927:Lt Colin Buist 1929–1930: Cdr Harold Campbell (Acting Equerry) 1934–1936: Lt the Hon. T. W. E. Coke

Extra Equerry 1927–1936: Maj. T. E. G. Nugent

Ladies-in-Waiting 1923–1926: Lady Katharine Meade 1926–1932: Lady Helen Graham 1932–1936: The Hon. Mrs Geoffrey Bowlby

Extra Ladies-in-Waiting 1929–1936: The Lady Annaly

Physicians 1936: George Frederick Still 1936: Sir John Weir 1936: Henry Letheby Tidy 1936: Daniel Thomas Davies

Surgeons 1936: Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward 1936: Arthur Porritt

Household of King George VI (1936–1952)

Lord Chamberlain 1937–1938: The Rt Hon. Rowland Thomas, Earl of Cromer 1938–1952: The Rt Hon. George Herbert Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

Lord Steward 1937–1940: The Rt Hon. Walter John, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry 1940–1952: Wing Cdr Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon

Master of the Horse 1937–1952: The Most Noble Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy, Duke of Beaufort

Treasurer of the Household

Comptroller of the Household

Vice-Chamberlain

Private Secretary 1936–1943: The Rt Hon. Sir Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge 1943–1952: Sir Alan Lascelles Assistant Private Secretaries 1937: Frank Herbert Mitchell, Esq. 1937–1943: Alan Frederick Lascelles, Esq. 1937–: Sir Eric Charles Miéville 1937–: Michael Adeane, Esq.

The King's Archives Keeper 1937–1945: Col. the Rt Hon. Clive, Baron Wigram 1945–1952: The Rt Hon. Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles

Assistant Keeper 1937–1952: Owen Frederick Morshead, Esq.

Keeper of the Privy Purse 1937–1952: Sir Ulick Alexander

Financial Secretary to the King 1937–: Frederick Percival Robinson, Esq.

The Almonry High Almoner 1937–1946: The Most Reverend and Right Hon. Cosmo Gordon Lang (Archbishop of Canterbury) 1946–1952: The Right Reverend Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield

Sub-Almoner 1937–1941: Prebendary Launcelot Jefferson Percival 1941–1948: The Rev. Wallace Harold Elliott 1948–1952: The Rev. Maurice Frederic Foxell

Lords in Waiting Two 'non-political' Lords in Waiting (the Earl of Eldon and Viscount Allendale) were appointed by the king, otherwise these were political appointees.

Permanent Lords in Waiting 1936–1952: Col. the Rt Hon. Clive, Baron Wigram 1938–1952: the Rt Hon. Rowland Thomas, Earl of Cromer

His Majesty's Comptroller at Ascot 1937–1945: The Rt Hon. Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings, Earl of Granard

Master of the Household 1937–1941: Brig. Gen. Sir Smith Hill Child, Bt. 1941–1952: Lt Col. Sir Piers Walter Legh Assistant Master of the Household 1937–: Capt. Ririd Myddelton Deputy Master of the Household 1950–1952: Gp Capt. Peter Wooldridge Townsend

Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office 1937–1952: Maj. Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent Assistant Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office 1937–: Maj. Norman Wilmshurst Gwatkin Examiners of Plays 1937–: Henry Clement Game, Esq. 1937–: Geoffrey Dearmer, Esq. Secretary of the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood 1937–: Maj. Henry Hudson Fraser Stockley

Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 1937–1945: Lt-Gen. Sir George Sidney Clive 1945–1950: Sir John Berkeley Monck 1950–1952: Maj.-Gen. Arthur Guy Salisbury-Jones Vice Marshal 1937–1945: John Berkeley Monck, Esq. Assistant Marshal 1937–1952: Capt. Sir John Lindsay Dashwood, Bt.

Crown Equerry 1937–1941: Col. Sir Arthur Erskine 1941–1952: Col. Dermot McMorrough Kavanagh

Equerries

Extra Equerries

Honorary Veterinary Surgeons 1937–1939: Maj. Sir Frederick Hobday 1937–: John Willett, Esq.

Grooms in Waiting 1937–1945: R Adm. Sir Basil Vernon Brooke 1937: Cdr Harold George Campbell 1937–1952: Arthur Horace Penn, Esq. 1937–1942: Col. the Hon. Sir George Sidney Herbert, Bt. 1937–1952: Capt. Richard John Streatfeild 1937–1950: Brig.-Gen. George Camborne Beauclerk Paynter

Extra Grooms in Waiting 1937–1952: The Hon Sir Montague Charles Eliot (later Earl of St Germans) 1937–1950: Sir Harry Lloyd-Verney 1937–1939: The Hon. Sir Harry Julian Stonor 1937–1947: Maj. Sir Philip Hunloke 1937–1944: Col. Sir Victor Audley Falconer Mackenzie, Bt. 1937–1952: Sir Frank Herbert Mitchell

Groom of the Robes 1937–1952: Cdr Harold George Campbell

Gentlemen Ushers

Extra Gentlemen Ushers

Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State 1937–1946: Gen. Sir Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday 1946–1952: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Sheridan Barratt

Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod 1937–1941: Lt-Gen. Sir William Pulteney 1941–1944: Air Chief Marshal Sir William Gore Sutherland Mitchell 1945–1949: Vice Adm. Sir Geoffrey Blake 1949–1952: Lt-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks

Pages of Honour

Sergeants at Arms 1937–1948: Capt. Sir Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse 1937–1939: Frederic Stanley Osgood, Esq. 1937–1946: Maj. Henry Hudson Fraser Stockley 1937–1949: George David Field, Esq. 1939–1946: Alfred Vigor Marten, Esq. 1946–1952: George Alfred Titman, Esq. 1946–1952: Lt (S) Albert William Stone, R.N. 1949–1952: George Frederick Thomas Hopkins, Esq.

Sergeant at Arms, House of Lords 1937–1939: Maj. Gen. Sir Charles Edward Corkran 1939–1946: Adm. the Hon. Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh 1946–1952: Air Vice-Marshal Sir Paul Copeland Maltby

Sergeant at Arms, House of Commons 1937–1952: Brig. Charles Alfred Howard

Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle 1937–1952: Maj.-Gen. the Rt Hon. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George, Earl of Athlone

Deputy Constable and Lieutenant Governor 1937–1945: Col. the Rt Hon. Clive, Baron Wigram 1945–1952: Brig. Gen. the Rt Hon. Alexander Gore Arkwright, Earl of Gowrie

Librarian 1937–1952: Owen Frederick Morshead, Esq.

Keeper of the Jewel House, Tower of London 1937–1944: Maj.-Gen. Sir George John Younghusband Vacant 1944-1952 1952: Maj.-Gen. Hervey Degge Wilmot Sitwell

Surveyor of The King's Pictures 1937–1945: Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Esq. 1945–1952: Anthony Frederick Blunt, Esq.

Surveyor of The King's Works of Art 1937–1946: Lord Gerald Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) 1946–1952: James Gow Mann, Esq.

Master of the Music 1937–1941: Sir Henry Walford Davies 1942–1952: Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax

Poet Laureate 1937–1952: John Masefield, Esq.

Coroner of the Household 1937–1952: Lt-Col. William Hilgrove Leslie McCarthy

Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms

Captain of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard

Ecclesiastical Household College of Chaplains

Clerk of the Closet 1937: The Rt Rev. Thomas Banks Strong, Bishop of Oxford 1937–1942: The Rt Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett, Bishop of Winchester 1942–1952: The Rt Rev. Percy Mark Herbert, Bishop of Norwich

Deputy Clerk of the Closet 1937–1941: Prebendary Launcelot Jefferson Percival 1941–1948: The Rev. Wallace Harold Elliott 1948–1952: The Rev. Maurice Frederic Foxell

Chaplains

Chaplains in Scotland

Chapels Royal Dean of the Chapels Royal 1937–1939: The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London. 1939–1945: The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of London. 1945–1952: The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon. John William Charles Wand, Bishop of London.

Precentor of the Chapels Royal 1937–1941: Prebendary Launcelot Jefferson Percival 1941–1948: The Rev. Wallace Harold Elliott

Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal 1948–1952: The Rev. Maurice Frederic Foxell

Priests 1937–1940: The Rev. Arthur Henry Owen McCheane 1937–1948: The Rev. Maurice Frederic Foxell 1937–1952: The Rev. Cyril Moxon Armitage 1940–1952: The Rev. Erik Francis Donne 1948–1952: The Rev. George Ernest Sage

Deputy Priest 1937–1940: The Rev. Erik Francis Donne 1940–1945: The Rev. Francis Charles Synge 1941–1952: The Rev. Michael Ridley 1945–1952: Canon Anthony Lewis Elliott Williams 1945–1952: The Reverend William Edward Lees

Honorary Priests 1937–1951: Canon Howard Gurney Daniell-Bainbridge 1937–1952: The Rev. Trevitt Reginald Hine-Haycock 1937–1941: The Rev. Leigh Hunter Nixon

Organist and Composer 1937–1952: Edgar Stanley Roper, Esq.

Domestic Chaplains 1937–1942: Prebendary Launcelot Jefferson Percival (Buckingham Palace). 1937–1944: The Very Rev. Albert Victor Baillie, Dean of Windsor (Windsor Castle). 1937–1942: The Rev. Arthur Rose Fuller (Sandringham). 1937–1952: The Rev. John Lamb (Domestic Chaplain to His Majesty in Scotland) 1942–1948: The Rev. Wallace Harold Elliott (Buckingham Palace). 1942–1952: The Rev. Hector David Anderson (Sandringham). 1944–1952: The Rt Rev. Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton, Dean of Windsor (Windsor Castle). 1948–1952: The Rev. Maurice Frederic Foxell (Buckingham Palace).

Chaplain, Hampton Court Palace 1937–1940: The Rev. Walter Kelly Firminger 1940–1947: The Rev. Lewis Verey 1947–1952: Prebendary Herbert Harris

Organist, Hampton Court Palace 1937–1952: William James Phillips, Esq.

Medical Household Physicians 1937–1945: The Rt Hon. Bertrand Edward, Viscount Dawson of Penn 1937–1949: The Rt Hon. Thomas Jeeves, Baron Horder 1937–1952: Sir John Weir 1937–1949: Sir Maurice Alan Cassidy 1949–1952: Sir Horace Evans 1949–1952: Daniel Thomas Davies, Esq.

Extra Physicians 1937–1945: Sir (Edward) Farquhar Buzzard, Bt. 1937–1950: John Alfred Ryle, Esq. 1937–1941: George Frederick Still, Esq. 1937–1952: Henry Letheby Tidy, Esq. 1949–1952: The Rt Hon. Thomas Jeeves, Baron Horder

Serjeant Surgeon 1937–1939: Wilfred Trotter, Esq. 1939–1952: Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill

Surgeons 1937–1939: Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill 1937–1949: Sir James Walton 1937–1952: Sir Lancelot Edward Barrington-Ward 1946–1952: Arthur Espie Porritt, Esq. 1949–1952: Prof. James Rognvald Learmonth

Extra Surgeon 1949–1952: Sir James Walton

Surgeon Oculist 1937–1952: Sir Stewart Duke-Elder

Consulting Surgeon Oculist 1937–1944: Col. Sir William Tindall Lister

Manipulative Surgeon 1937–1949: Sir Morton Smart

Extra Manipulative Surgeon 1949–1952: Sir Morton Smart

Orthopaedic Surgeon 1946–1952: Sir Reginald Watson-Jones

Sergeant Surgeon-Dentist 1946–1949: Charles Sculthorpe Morris, Esq.

Surgeon Dentist 1937–1946: Charles Sculthorpe Morris, Esq. 1946–1952: Alan Cumbrae Rose McLeod, Esq.

Aurist 1946–1952: John Douglas McLaggan, Esq.

Surgeon Apothecary to His Majesty, and Apothecary to the Household 1937–1949: Sir (Frederick) Stanley Hewett

Extra Surgeon Apothecary to His Majesty 1949–1952: Sir Frederick Stanley Hewett

Apothecary to the Household 1949–1952: John Nigel Loring, Esq.