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DH, an academic at a big university, occasionally had to spend a week or so at a newer, smaller uni in a country town which for all kinds of reasons wasn't doing very well. And if the lecturers went on strike, people from his uni would go there and teach the students until the issue of the day had blown over. One time, he came home looking like a dog with water in its ears. He'd had a class which included a student whose names, she went by both of them, were Queen Elizabeth. He felt very uncomfortable, handing out marked tests or essays to the students: John Smith, Sally Jones, Queen Elizabeth Lastname ...

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Princess is a bad choice, no doubt about it, but Queen Elizabeth is intensely personal and therefore worse, IMO.