WI: Princess Elizabeth of Clarence survives to adulthood

Princess Elizabeth Georgiana Adelaide was born to William and Adelaide, the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, on 21st January 1821 (rather than 10th December as IOTL) and due to her mother carrying her to term, she doesn't succumb to an intro-susception of the bowels at twelve weeks old.

She is born almost a year after her grandfathers death and becomes third in line to the throne after her uncle, Frederick the Duke of York and her father, but ahead of her cousin Alexandrina Victoria of Kent and her other uncles, of which only Ernest the Duke of Cumberland and Adolphus the Duke of Cambridge had born male issue.

On 26th June 1830, her father becomes King and on 20th June 1837 when she was only sixteen, she becomes Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, with a recency overseen (at the request of King William IV himself, who detested his brother, the Duke of Cumberland) by a council composed of the unlikable Duke of Cumberland, the liberal Duke of Sussex, the career soldier Duke of Cambridge and Queen Adelaide, the Queen Mother.

In a year and a half, she will reach the age of majority - What happens next?
 
I made a start on this a while back but never got round to picking it up - https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...abeth-ii-of-great-britain-and-ireland.396030/
For information the 1830 regency act was explicit about who should rule if Victoria was not of age when William IV died - or if Queen Adelaide produced a child which would displace the King's niece in the succession -
The act is unlikely to be different in these circumstances - So in the event of William's death before his daughter was of age then the regency would be vested in Queen Adelaide, if a son was born after William's death the boy would immediately replace his elder sister as sovereign - Adelaide's regency as that planned for the Duchess of Kent would have the same rules - would rule as if they were sovereign with exceptions - not able to give royal assent to a change in the succession as set out in the Act of Settlement, no alteration to the religious settlement in England and in Scotland etc
 
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