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Re: CHAT: con-this'n'that
- To: John Cowan <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: CHAT: con-this'n'that
- From: "Raymond A. Brown" <[email protected]>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:30:57 +0100
- Cc: Constructed Languages List <[email protected]>, Padraic Brown <[email protected]>, Andrew Smith <[email protected]>, Peter Skye <[email protected]>, John Schilke <[email protected]>, Frank George Valoczy <[email protected]>, Celticonlang List <[email protected]>, Sally Caves <[email protected]>, Douglas Mosier <[email protected]>, Martin Bertagnon <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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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.