Rory O'Neill AKA Panti

So it was arranged that we would go out that summer and spend a lot of time out there hanging out with this teenage girl from America.

And she became the first girl that my straight brother ever kissed.

And we spent loads of time at that time.

And I absolutely loved every minute of it.

It seemed like so exotic.

Was she glamorous?

like tweed skirts, flat shoes, you know, the dog, you know, everywhere in the house.

So there was dog hair everywhere.

And like a lot of, you know, those women from her generation, you know, things were getting pretty dilapidated.

So the house was kind of falling down and the rugs were threadbare and the sofas had the big stains from the dog sitting on it and all of that stuff.

But to me, it was so glamorous.

Like there was an elephant's foot in the hallway, you know, where she put the...

the umbrellas in you know this kind of stuff and you know I was 12 or whatever I was this all just seemed so glamorous oh and they made us cucumber sandwiches which I'd only ever heard about on the telly or in a book or you know fucking Miss Marple or something like I was just fascinated by the whole thing and you had an auntie QE yeah was she glamorous yeah

Super glamorous.

Yeah.

Her name is Clumba.

And I don't know where we all called her Q. Her name was just known as Q or QE.

My grandmother was this fiercely independent woman.

And my grandfather, my mother's father, had died leaving her with four kids.

And in England during the war, because he had moved them over there.