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Good Queen?
My mother, Beatrice, collected a few strange nns: one friend always called her Bess. So I was quite accustomed to it, didn't give it much thought at all but it was OK. My daughter, also Beatrice, knows lots of stories about her grandmother but not that one. She found that if she phoned in to radio shows (she was at the age for doing it!), the DJ or whoever tended to find her name unfamiliar. So she took to calling herself Bess, and it worked well.