Once a day I read blurbs from my ethnic paper, The Scotsman. The highlight of today's news was that a Mrs. C. Windsor cut a ribbon with a pair of scissors.
This is a big deal in Scotland.
Her real name should be Mrs. C. Mountbatten or Von Battenburg, but for patriotic and self survival reasons, the previous generation had changed their name to be more anglicized. This is common with families coming from other countries. If and when Mr. Windsor comes to be head of the family business, he may change the last name back to Mountbatten. Not so much for the love of his father as for his late and beloved Uncle Louis.
That's the news from the maternal side of my ethnic identity. The news from the other side is that the QE2 and the QM2 were in town together. That's only the second time in both of their lifetimes the two, one venerable and the other new and big, ladies have been in town together. I have met QE2 and her ancestor QEI but haven't had the pleasure yet of seeing QM2.
The funny thing is, I'm not sure if the 2 in QM2 is because she is the second ship of that name or if there was a QMII in the family line. Not that important and I won't lose any sleep over it, just a thought.
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