Grandchildren Ben (4 11/12ths) and James (8) are at the sort of age when you can hold a sensible conversation with them. Over lunch today we got round to the subject of age.
"Grandpa - there was a war on when you were born, wasn't there?"
"Yes James"
Pause.
"Grandpa - who was the Queen then?"
"We'll James there wasn't a Queen then ; we had a King - George the Sixth. But his wife was called the Queen."
"Victoria", said Ben.
Ouch.
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Later, the Queen still an area of concern, James asks "How old is the Queen?"
Grandma, being a woman and therefore knowing about such things, replies "Eighty seven."
James, after a moment's reflection:
"We'll, in thirteen years she'll have to send herself one of those tele-things".
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