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Re: CHAT: con-this'n'that

From:Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...>
Date:Friday, May 14, 1999, 19:30
At 10:29 am -0400 14/5/99, John Cowan wrote:
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>Diana Plantagenet was born in 1961, the eldest child of her mother, >Queen Elizabeth Plantagenet, and her father, Prince Philip of >Battenberg. She assumed the Thrones of Westminster and Scone in 1997,
Eh? Battenberg's a type of cake; and scones are delicious with jam (jelly to you in the US) and cream :)
>when her mother abdicated in her favor, the first instance in Anglo-Scots >history of a Queen Regnant succeeding another Queen Regnant. > >Commonly known as the "Queen of Hearts",
who according to the well-known nursery rhyme made some tarts (only to have them stolen by the knave). [snip]
>Her style: Diana, First of that Name, by the Grace of God Queen of >England, Scotland, and France [not really, but the French Republic >doesn't care much these days],
Umm - Queen of France? Maybe those words apocryphally ascribed to Queen Marie Antoinette *here* were really uttered *there* by Queen Diana of France: "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" Ray.