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From: NIGEL HAY <Nigelhay@tanksrus.freeserve.co.uk>
To: Military Vehicles List <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Date: 21 February 2000 07:56
Subject: [MV] Windshields down in the UK
>Lizzie Windsor (aka our Queen) and the other 23 are all Mrs W's realtives.
>
Made-up name !
Windsor was adopted just before WW I, they thought Saxe-Coburg-Gotha wasn't too
appropriate under the circumstances, Dickie Battenburg adopted Mountbatten
likewise.
>More quaint English trivia available on request.
>
Absolutely.
Richard
(Southampton - England)
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