On the morning February 6,1952, George VI of Great Britain was discovered to have died in the night and within hours his Heiress Presumptive Princess Elizabeth was notified in Kenya. Several hours later, the new Queen and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh cut short their Commonwealth tour and departed for London despite severe thunderstorms putting the airplane at risk.
POD-Suppose the plane had crashed and Elizabeth's son Charles was thrust onto the throne at age three. Would George VI's widow, the Queen Grandmother have been the one appointed Guardian and Regent? Would the Queen Grandmother have chosen Charles as the new king's reigning name or opted for her late husband's name and Charles would be known as 'George VII'? And, after a rather intense Triple Funeral for Charles's parents and grandfather, how would the reign have progressed as Charles got older and would Charles have had more or less of a choice re when and whom he married?