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I'm sure this has been posted before, but here goes another one. During the Blitz of 1940, Buckingham Palace was struck by a bomb and George VI was nearly killed by the blast. Although he survived OTL, his wife Elisabeth remarked that she was glad they'd been hit because now they could look the East End in the face. But suppose that the king was killed? How would this affect the British war effort? Would his daughter be crowned and his wife serve as regent until she came of age or would his brother, the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) who'd abdicated return to claim the throne?
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