DBWI: What if George VII remained an "eternal" heir apparent?

OOC: Inspired by this fantastic timeline, George VII is supposed to be Prince Charles.

IC: You see, if Elizabeth II hadn't been assassinated back in the 1970s, she might very well be alive to this day. You see, her mother made it over hundred and her widower is also still living. So it's entirely possible that George VII wouldn't be a decade-long serving king, but rather be kind of an eternal heir apparent, still being Prince Charles at 63 years of age who'd better abdicate in favor of one of his children to make way for a younger and fresher monarch.

So what do you think? What would this hypothetical not-yet-king have been different from the king we know today without the premature death of his mother?
 
He'd have probably married a lot later in life, rather than having the shambles that happened IOTL. If he was still Prince of Wales he would hopefully have found real love, and the popularity of the monarchy would have remained high during the 90s. We wouldn't have had a Royal Wedding in 1978 and the subsequent messy divorce in the late 80s after his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles was exposed, leading to the Abdication in 1987.

Imagine if he'd have kids before the affair broke - the pressure and expectation was there. Instead we ended up with Randy Andy in Buckingham Palace and the institution at it's lowest ebb. It's no wonder Labour called a referendum on the Republic when they came to power in 1996.
 

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You see, her mother made it over hundred...
But her father didn’t make it to sixty. Asking us to imagine that Elisabeth II would have lived as long as Queen Victoria did is, frankly asking a bit much.

I personally don’t know which would have been worse, a king constantly getting all weepy at the memory of ‘my dear mother’, or a prince moping around with nothing to do but talk to trees and fuck other people’s wives. Then again, perhaps I’m being too harsh; maybe he wouldn’t have been an emotional cripple if his mother hadn’t been murdered right in front of him.
 
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