Jan. 13th, 2020

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In all the furore over Harry and Meghan, I find this Buzzfeed article fascinating.

It highlights the difference in how the press covers Kate vs. Meghan. Like Kate tenderly cradling her baby bump vs. Meghan "is it pride, vanity, acting or a new age bonding technique?"

I think my favourite is Meghan endangered Charlotte's life by having lily of the valley flowers in her wedding. Kate also had lily of the valley flowers in her wedding but there was no implication she was trying to off one of her bridesmaids.

If someone was continuously posting crap like this about me, I'd be all, "Screw it, I'm out."
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13. What are your favorite pizza toppings?

Cheese and sweetcorn or cheese and tomato. It's been ages since I had pizza. *wants*
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I'm pretty sure of the actual facts in this, I'm just curious if there's a reason I'm missing.

The 1901 and 1911 censuses give me the ages of William and Emma as 5/15 and 2/12. Therefore their birth years are ~1896 and ~1899. A search on the GRO gives me birth years of 1896 and 1898. That all works out.

Then I find their baptism records. They were baptised on the same day (13 Feb 1906). Their names/parents' names/address/father's occupation all match.

Their listed birthdates are 24 Aug 1895 for William and 4 Oct 1894 for Emma.

Do I assume J.M. K--- (who baptised them) was really bad at maths or am I missing something?

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