by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Yikes!
What can she be thinking of?
It has been announced from Buckingham Palace (by the Lord Chamberlain Earl Peel) that Her Majesty the Queen (known to favored intimates as "Betty Windsor") has cancelled this year's staff Christmas party. Thus are the 600 people who serve her in myriad capacities deprived of the joy of making merrie from her privy purse (meaning she pays for the dainties herself).
Why did she do it?
Lord Peel in his email...