Re: CHAT: con-this'n'that

["Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@clara.co.uk>]

At 10:29 am -0400 14/5/99, John Cowan wrote:
[....]
>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.