In which Nelly and Pippa discuss "The Bank Job"



Nelly: Darling, it was 'scalawag' not 'scamp.'

Pippa: What was that?  We must have a very poor connection.

Nelly:  What Mountbatten said when he saw the snaps of Margaret Rose in bed with those two native chaps.  You said Mountbatten called her a scamp.  But what he actually called her was a scalawag.

Pippa:  I see.

Nelly:  World of difference.

Pippa: I must have been so distracted by the enormity of Margaret Rose's misdeeds I became a little muddled.

Nelly: Of course, I know how you identify with her Sister.  One can imagine even stronger language, under the circumstances.

Pippa:  Do lets give Sister credit.  Those photos disappeared and documents relating to the case are sealed 'til 2051. 

Nelly:  As someone in the crowd once cried out to Victoria, "you go, old girl."

Pippa:  I'd hate to have been Meg when this was going on, having to face Sister and Mum.

[They both shudder at the thought]

Nelly: The Duchess of Windsor used to call them Shirley Temple and the Scottish Cook, you know.

Pippa:  [icy]  The Duchess was not a Royal.  Let us recall, as Caroline once said, "To an embattled Protestant community whose very identity depended on their loyalty to the British crown, Mrs. Simpson was a figure regarded with horror.  She was a threat to the church and the monarchy.  She symbolized sex and evil."

Nelly: I never liked her much either.