6 SEPTEMBER 1986, Page 19

Double annoyment

Sir: Being a Scot, I am more inclined to agree with your correspondent, Allan Mas- sie, than with Charles Moore (Letters and Diary, 9 August) about the Queen's title as Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland rather than Queen of England but how can we ever convince the English of this? Surely, however, the first Elizabeth said that she had the 'heart and stomach of a king and a king of England too' — not the heart and stomach of a queen, as both Mr Moore and Mr Massie have put it. This ought to annoy the feminists as well as the Scots and Welsh and thus add to Mr Moore's enjoyment of his Scottish holiday. May I wish him a very enjoyable one.

Belhaven and Stenton

House of Lords, London SW1