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   XPost: alt.politics.british   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <1157649203.916474.180100@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,   
   Donald Renouf  writes   
      
   >Why do you put inverted commas around all royal and noble titles except   
   >that of Diana, Princess of Wales? Is her title of Princess (since 1996   
   >not even a substantive title, but only borne by courtesy) somehow more   
   >legitimate than the Royal Family from which it derived?   
      
   No. See the archives for my discussion on why I use this tactic. Of   
   course the whole 'lords and ladies' and 'princes and princesses' thing   
   is a load of shit.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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