The war about The War of the Roses

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Jun 7 07:11:25 UTC 2008


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> 
wrote:

Carol:
As for remembering which is red and which is white, I always associate
> the Red Queen in "Alice's Adventures through the Looking Glass" with
> Henry VI's militant French queen, Marguerite d'Anjou--but that won't
> help if you're not familiar with her (or if you favor the 
Lancastrians
> over the Yorkists).  

Geoff:
To repeat something I wrtoe a few days ago when your computer may 
have been on holiday :-)

It's easy. Alphabetically, red precede white and Lancaster precedes 
York.

QED.

Geoff
(a real son of Lancashire)





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