Who would Princess Margaret marry?

Keenir

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If, in World War Two, Queen Elizabeth perishes in the Blitz, and Princess Margaret assumes the throne...who would she marry?
 

Dure

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John Holmes? Seems her type. He would need a title: Lord John Holmes of Wonderland.
 
Probably Phillip Mountbatten.

I kinda doubt that one, especially as he was escorting Princess Elizabeth.

And let us not forget that Elizabeth II was not Queen during the Blitz - George VI was until he died in 1952. And Margaret was 11 at the time of the Blitz, too.
 

sprite

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Phillip only met Elizabeth in 1939, he was put in charge of entertaining the King's two daughters while the King and Queen toured Dartmouth Naval College, as their parents were close friends.

Both parents viewed Philip as an acceptable match for Elizabeth, however with her dying in 1940, i believe there would be an agreement for Philip to eventually marry Margaret at a after the war. Maybe not before George dies, but they'd certainly be engaged by then.
 
Very unlikely result.
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark as he then was had met before but it was the 1939 meeting that made the big impression.
However he was not the most popular choice with the family. And in fact George II of Greece was pointedly told that the matter was not one to be discussed as Lillibet was far too young. Rumours that he was the intended "Prince Consort" flowed far freer in the Mountbatten Family and amongst the exiled Greek royal family than within British Court Circles.
The King eventually gave way because he admired Philip (given what he'd made of his life in spite of his parents rather difficult relationship) and because he adored his daughter and wouldn't have thwarted her. The Queen (later the Queen Mother) was closer to the views of courtiers who didn't like him very much. She would have preferred someone in her own mould - a british aristocrat whose upbringing and tastes was closer to the family life she'd created as Duchess of York and Queen and not a foreign royal with a host of embarrassing relations. She also (and in this her views were shared by Elizabeth II) wasn't particularly fond of Louis Mountbatten who she considered pushy.
Had Lilibet died during the war and given the likelihood that Margaret would have been unmarried on her father's death then its highly likely that a British toff would have been her choice.
 
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