UK or England thread?

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I'm glad they had to clearly label the product as "artificially flavoured"; I was posting in a separate thread yesterday about how US food labelling regulations are inferior to EU ones, but maybe I was wrong. I'm also glad the US still uses primarily imperial units of weight, unlike us Marxists in the EU.

I had some similar ones before Christmas only they were dark choc and they cherries were swimming in cherry brandy. Nice

They are nice! But they also make me think of poor Anne Boleyn when she was beheaded...

Anne Boleyn and Marie Antoinette are my two favorite headless queens!

Queen Anne was a queen in her own right in the eighteenth century; it has nothing to do with Anne Boleyn:

^And she would want you to enjoy chocolates named after her TW1ZTY.

Another interesting queen for me to look up!

Was Queen Anne's Lace also named after her?

Queen Anne's Lace is a type of flower btw

I shall investigate. The picture looks similar to cow parsley

I see it growing on the sides of the road as a wildflower all the time. It's very pretty.

I got all this from The Woodland Trust.

It is cow parsley, proper name Anthriscus sylvestris



Also known as Queen Anne's Lace or Mother Die.

Etymology: Cow parsley is sometimes known as Queen Anne's lace. There are many stories to explain the origins of this name. Some say as Queen Anne travelled the countryside in May the roadsides had been decorated for her. Others claim that Queen Anne suffered from asthma and would walk in the countryside for fresh air. The lace pillows that her ladies carried resembled the delicate cow parsley flowers so the country-folk renamed the plant.

That's pretty interesting!

You know before I heard about this Queen Anne, I used to imagine that those flowers were named after the long laced sleeves on Anne Boleyn's dresses that she supposedly wore to cover up an extra pinky and the moles on her body.

I loved these historic fiction novels in high school called "The Young Royals" by Carolyn Meyer which focused on the four most important women of the Tudor family: Mary Tudor, her sister Elizabeth Tudor, Anne Boleyn (second wife of Henry the VIII), and Catherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry the VIII).

Carolyn Meyer did similar novels that focused on other princesses and queens like Marie Antoinette and Mary, Queen of Scotts but I only read the first four about the Tudors and thought they were intriguing. My favorite was the book about Anne Boleyn. I actually felt sympathy for her.

If I ever visit the UK for a vacation I want to visit the city of London and then maybe Ireland and Cornwall. Those two countries look so beautiful!

I've never been to the City - only through it. Ireland is beautiful but hasn't been part of the UK since 1921 and Cornwall is great (been there once) but going downhill.

Oh ok, I thought it was still part of the UK. My bad.

Northern Ireland is part of the UK and has been since 1921 so you were half right.