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ArchivesLilibet: the revision
The BBC news website, like the rest of the UK no doubt, is running stories on the Queen as her anniversary approaches. Today's article focuses on the Queen in fiction, and on how much of what the public thought they knew was mistaken. So, Lilibet!
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220524-the-imaginary-lives-of-the-queen
A book called Mrs Queen Takes The Train, by William Kuhn, for instance, "does have fun demolishing the little we think we know: one of her favourite pastimes is correcting biographies of herself. For instance, "Lilibet", her famous nickname, has nothing to do with "Elizabeth". Instead, we're told that it derives from the words "little bit", as in: she could have a little bit of pink-iced cake if she were a good girl. The diminutive "was a tease, really, a pinch, a reminder that it was undignified for a princess to be greedy for cake".
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220524-the-imaginary-lives-of-the-queen
A book called Mrs Queen Takes The Train, by William Kuhn, for instance, "does have fun demolishing the little we think we know: one of her favourite pastimes is correcting biographies of herself. For instance, "Lilibet", her famous nickname, has nothing to do with "Elizabeth". Instead, we're told that it derives from the words "little bit", as in: she could have a little bit of pink-iced cake if she were a good girl. The diminutive "was a tease, really, a pinch, a reminder that it was undignified for a princess to be greedy for cake".
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