[Magdalen] PRS Advent 1

[Jay Weigel]

Not to mention that the James Madison University women's basketball team is
also known as the Dukes, because, well, Lady Dukes would be weird, and you
just wouldn't call them the Duchesses.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 11/30/15 6:38 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
>
>> On 01/12/2015 00:07, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>>
>>> So these are now lady Lords? Talk about gender-bending!  ;^}
>>>
>>
>> I understand that Bishop Rachel sent back the original Writ of Summons
>> to take her seat in the House of Lords (which has included female Peers
>> for some time) because it called her a Right Reverend Father in God.
>> This was amended to Bishop.
>>
>> There is also the lovely trivia question "Which married couple are both
>> Dukes?"  The answer is the Queen (who is Duke of Lancaster, a title
>> always held by the monarch) who is married to Prince Philip, Guke of
>> Edinburgh.
>>
>
> Then there are married couples whose surname is "Duke"...
>
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> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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