Voltaire
In any case, Her Majesty would have been a middle-aged woman of 46 at her accession, in which case she -- like her Danish counterpart, who also succeeded in 1972 -- would be celebrating only her golden jubilee this year.
And none of this matters. It didn't happen. Thankfully. Lord knows what would happened to us all here in the UK if Edward had been allowed to continue his reign. As it is we have celebrated 70 glorious years of her Majesty's reign.
We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.369