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