Adam Macqueen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Can I just give you the last tiny, beautiful detail from this?
Apparently, according to the French press, the Queen was haunted by plaintive inquiries of her little Prince Andrew, naively asking...
Tell me, Mama, is it Mexico that Papa is?
I think he lost something in translation.
Make it up and I'm going to deny it.
Number three, the big one.
Who named the Queen Brenda?
Not Willie Rushton, no.
Was it Prince Philip?
God bless you, sir.
God bless you, sir.
No, it wasn't.
And it wasn't Private Eye, even though we've adopted the nickname and have been using it ever since.
According to the Grovel column, which was kind of a sort of weird society column that Private Eye ran in the 70s.
1971, it reported that it was a nickname used by her immediate staff.
So actually a genuine nickname within the palace, which was then adopted by Private Eye.