The Platinum Sceptre (short story)

was a free The Lucy Wilson Mysteries short story released by Candy Jar Books in 2022, in celebration of, and set during, the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
== Publisher's summary ==
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== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
* Lucy Wilson
* Zork-Morkavi-Rokosh
* Conall Lethbridge-Stewart
* Dean Lethbridge-Stewart
* Elizabeth II
* Prince Philip
* Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
== Worldbuilding ==
* 2 June, 2022 is the date of both Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee celebration, and Lucy's seventeenth birthday.
* Upon learning that Lucy came from 2022, the young Elizabeth assumes that her son Charles III would be King by that point.
* Lucy thinks her grandfather might be a teacher at Brendon Public School in 1977.
== Story notes ==
* Lucy tries to remember what her grandfather would have been doing by 1977, adding that "time is really confusing in the 1970s", a nod to the UNIT dating controversy.
* The 1977 Queen Elizabeth assumes that her son Charles would be King by 2022, only to be amazed to learn that she was still on the throne by then. In a sad case of irony, the real Charles indeed would become King that year, following Elizabeth's passing just three months later.
== Continuity ==
* The Brigadier is a teacher at Brendon Public School in 1977. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
== External links ==
Category:The Lucy Wilson Mysteries short stories
Category:2022 short stories
Category:Lucy Wilson short stories