[peel] Off topic Brit culture question

Rob Brewer rbrwr@...
Sun Feb 23 22:26:40 CET 2003


At 14:14 23/02/03 -0500, Tom Roche wrote:


>I am reading the current Private Eye and once again they have referred to 
>Queen Elizabeth as "Brenda." What's the origin of that?

I don't know, but it goes back over twenty years. At one time they
had a full set of pseudonyms for the Royals - Charles and Diana were
"Brian and Cheryl", if I recall correctly...


Rob





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