@Hawaii_Jake, sorry, I didn’t mean to treat your distress flippantly. You invited funny stories, so I thought you meant this more or less jocularly.
I really did have such a fantasy when I was younger. My father was Canadian, so we paid a lot of attention to QE’s coronation. I actually remember watching it live on TV, and it looked great to me, orb and sceptre and ermine and crown and all. I also had a Coronation coloring book and Coronation paper dolls. I thought it would suit me to be queen; it was a way better idea than being a fairy-tale princess. Then later I thought maybe I would just marry Prince Charles. Later still he turned out to be too boring. But I still tried to walk as if I were a princess in disguise; sometimes I still do.