CHAT: Queen Di (was: this'n'that)

Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> Eh?  Battenberg's a type of cake; and scones are delicious with jam (jelly
> to you in the US) and cream   :)
Wow.  And did the North American League's General Moderator, John F.
Kennedy, really say "I am a jelly doughnut", too?

Anyhow, over *there* the Mountbatten family kept its original style of
Battenberg, I figure.

> >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).
The scurrilous press has used a variant of this rhyme to accuse
her Majesty of, er, perversion.  There is no truth in this whatever.
Even if there were, it is not a crime in England, thanks to Queen
Victoria P.'s well-known "pocket veto" of the relevant Bill.

> 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!"
Not her style, I think.  Anyway, Voltaire remains Voltaire.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)