[peel] Off topic Brit culture question

[Jon]

Surely it's just meant to make them sound more (ahem) "working class",
in order to break down the reverence which prevents us from seeing them
as barnacles on the hull of Britain...

Rob Brewer wrote:
> 
> 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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