If Elizabeth dies young & Princess Margaret is crowned Queen...

I'm thinking about her regnal name and number. England has never had a Queen Margaret before -- however, Scotland has had one. So what I'm wondering is, if Elizabeth had died young somehow and Margaret was the one crowned Queen in 1952 after George VI's death, how would she be numbered? Would she be Queen Margaret II, or would they be like "Fuck you Scotland" and call her Queen Margaret I?
 
Now there's an interesting point.

But then again her full name was Margaret Rose Windsor, so she didn't have a common regnal name as a middle name which she could recycle like her dad (Albert Frederick Arthur George) and great-grandfather (Albert Edward) did. If she's not Queen Margaret she could be Queen Rose I or she could adopt some totally different random name.
 
I believe she would have been Margaret II (assuming of couse she kept her birth name as her regnal name). It was around this time that convention was put in place that the monarch took the highest regnal number from England or Scotland

(does that sentence make sense?)
 
I believe she would have been Margaret II (assuming of couse she kept her birth name as her regnal name). It was around this time that convention was put in place that the monarch took the highest regnal number from England or Scotland

(does that sentence make sense?)

Same point I was about to make, however I did not know whether this convention was established by this point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...of_Queen_Elizabeth_II#Royal_titles_and_styles

The monarch is titled seperately to each of their dominions, However ultimately the right to apply the regnal numbering lies within Royal Prerogative, although at this time Churchill first suggested the Regal numbering compromise with Scotland so it is quite possible Margaret would become Margaret II.
 

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I believe she would have been Margaret II (assuming of couse she kept her birth name as her regnal name). It was around this time that convention was put in place that the monarch took the highest regnal number from England or Scotland

(does that sentence make sense?)

I believe this is correct. I think this happened in EdT's timeline (which had a King Alexander IV at one point) and that diverged in the 1890s.
 
I'm thinking about her regnal name and number. England has never had a Queen Margaret before -- however, Scotland has had one. So what I'm wondering is, if Elizabeth had died young somehow and Margaret was the one crowned Queen in 1952 after George VI's death, how would she be numbered? Would she be Queen Margaret II, or would they be like "Fuck you Scotland" and call her Queen Margaret I?

Would "Queen Margaret" have chosen a different regnal name if Elizabeth had died during her work in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WW2? Perhaps Alexandra or Mary?:)
 
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or Elizabeth or Victoria ?

She could, I suppose, choose any name she desired; however, as her birth name is Margaret Rose, she'd likely reign as either Queen Margaret II or as Queen Rose (as ColeMercury noted up thread). Unless her older sister Elizabeth dies under heroic circumstances and becomes a national symbol of some-sort she would not choose to reign as Elizabeth II and there is no reason for her to choose to reign as Victoria II.
 
Margaret's numbering will follow the same rule as that for kings where the numbering is different in England and Scotland (example: William III of England was William II of Scotland). As a practical matter, the English numbering is the one that will be commonly used, as happened with the kings called William and James.
 
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