Now for something a little different. An alternative historical novel, James the Third, published by Unicorn on February 6th to coincide with HM the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
What if Queen Elizabeth, consort of George VI, had given birth to a son in the late 1940s?
In 1936, the Duke of York unexpectedly became King George VI, and his ten-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, became heir presumptive. However, she was never heir apparent, because a male sibling would automatically assume her place in the line of succession. So what would have happened upon the late arrival of a baby brother for the grown-up Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret? After King George VI’s death in 1952, the United Kingdom’s next sovereign would have been a very young boy, and one in need of a regent.
