Coronation Day

[poliphilo]

I have lived under 11 prime ministers. I was counting them on my fingers in bed last night. At first I made it ten, but then I realised I'd forgotten Sir Alec Douglas Home (which is easily done). You know what? I was at school briefly with a distant relative of Sir Alec's. At least I suppose they were related: they were both Scottish nobilty and both had Douglas in their hyphenated surnames, so surely they were cousins? Anyway, my man's name  was Lord Patrick Douglas Hamilton- and he was charming, dithery and lank-haired and  kept a duelling pistol in his locker.  My sort-of-friend D- who liked to think he was an aristo too- was desperately jealous of Lord Patrick and tormented him to the point where he threw up his hands and left our school and got himself educated privately instead. What a shame! D is now a mighty international banker (you don't know how tempted I was to substitute a "w" for the "b") and Lord Patrick.....

Well, I just Googled him and am happy to report  he's still alive. He shows up in an online studbook called Descendants of William the Conqueror and his entry reads

Birth: 1950
    Christening:
          Death: *
         Burial:
Cause of Death:
          AFN #: 

Isn't that grim? The grave gapes for him. A virtual prize will be awarded to anyone who can plausibly explain what AFN# means.

The only other fragment of information I can find is that his ex-wife- Lady Lulu- is now married to Mathew Benson the seriously wealthy, Oxford chum of current Tory leader David Cameron. 

Which brings us back to where we started- more or less.

So- prime ministers: What was I saying? Ah, yes.  A new one is coronated today. Which raises my score to 12. 

And that's all I'm saying. I won't rail or mock. Tomorrow maybe, but not today. Blair has gone. Savour the moment.  And where there's death there's hope...

Comments

[suzilem.livejournal.com]

according to www.accronymfinder.com, there are 18 possibilities. Given the connotation, I suspect the "Ancestral File Number", however my snarky brain prefers "Additional Funds Needed" :-)

AFN Assembly of First Nations
AFN American Forces Network
AFN Ancestral File Number (FamilySearch genealogy records)
AFN Afghan Afghani (new ISO currency code)
AFN Alaska Federation of Natives
AFN Armed Forces Network
AFN All For Now (used at end of email)
AFN Additional Funds Needed
AFN Advanced Fiber Network
AFN ATS Facilities Notification
AFN American Forensic Nurses
AFN America's Fiber Network (LLC)
AFN Adoption Family Network
AFN All For Naught
AFN Aggregate Function Network
AFN Acronym For Nothing
AFN Address Complete Message Subscriber Free, No Charge (ANSI)
AFN Asociación Futuro de los Niños (Association for the Future of Children, Guatemala)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I think Ancestral File Number is the most likely.

Here's your virtual prize. It can be anything you imagine it to be.

I see..

[elegysostenuto.livejournal.com]

..someone's answered. Here's the def.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_File_Number

Re: I see..

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.