I ain't posh and neither's me cousin
...who was raised on a council estate in Weston-Super-Mud. On leaving school she got a job as a child-minder, and I can't remember how it happened exactly but a year or so later she found herself doing much the same job, but by now for a family who lived out in the country. Part of her job was to take the neighbours' kids with her on the school run - and here comes the posh bit: the "neighbours" turned out to be Princess Anne and family. So anyway my cousin did this for a while, and one afternoon on getting back she was pottering about in the kitchen when Anne stuck her head round the door and asked her to make a couple of extra Nescafe's since they had visitors - and in walked Charles and his then new girlfriend Diana.

Diana worked in childcare at the time and was about the same age as my cousin, and to cut a long story short the two of them became firm friends. My cousin used to get Xmas and birthday cards from Diana right up till the end - and she always chucked them out along with the rest of them after a week or so, because she's Not Posh.
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Wed 21 Sep 2005, 10:51, Reply)