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Originally posted by Yennie@Jun 2nd, 2004 - 1:27 am
Otherwise QE II (and Charles, William...) would just be a "ordinary" member of the royal family.
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Yennie,
You are only partially correct. The present Queen would still have succeeded to the throne but probably on the death of her uncle in 1972. Whilst the Queen Mum always maintained that the stress of being King killed her husband prematurly in 1952 it is fact that King George VI was a chain smoker and was predisposed to the lung cancer that killed him.
The royal family was well aware in 1936 that Wallis Simpson was unable to have children due to damage caused by the abuse she suffered at the hands of her first husband. Therefore the succession would still have passed to Elizabeth & her children.