"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On 7 May, 19:37, " wrote:

Of course, the Queen is from the house of Windsor (is that where the
name cames from?

Yes. Although this chair is from Suffolk (SE coast), the "typical"
mass-market Windsors in the UK were made and sold around the Windsor
area.

The Queen's bizarre history of names are the result of a country that
doesn't much like foreigners finding itself ruled by offshoots of
European minor nobility. They deliberately renamed themselves from the
German "Battenburg" to the more English-sounding "Mountbatten" to
avoid being mistaken for a cheap pink cake. Swapping "Schleswig-
Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg" with a side-order of "Saxe-Coburg
Gotha" for "Windsor" makes it easier for our illiterate tabloids to
spell.

Hey who pulled your chain ? How about getting on to the likes of wilson and
his cronies who let in half of asia and africa and then enacted laws to say
you have to like them and support them .

Anyway getting back to the Windsor chair not the most attractive design too
much machining for me .Prefer the ones made by the bodgers wherever they
could find a source of wood [many places including Windsor],the ones with
the crelated stretchers the yew wood bentwood and the elm seats ...mjh