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Sir: Anyone else but the Queen, whose nationality was so

constantly misrepresent- ed, would complain to the Race Relations hoard.

Why should she be called German? George II, born in Hanover in 1683, was the last of our monarchs not to be born in this country and our present Queen Moth- er, from whom the Queen derives half her ancestry, is obviously of British extraction. ,.Republicans like to pretend that the windsors have no royal Stuart blood, but Prince Charles descends no fewer than 22 times over from James VI of Scotland, who inherited the English throne as James I in 1603. (Sir lain Moncreiffe, preface to Royal Highness: Ancestry of the Royal Child, Hamish Hamilton, 1982). Jennifer Miller 2 Heathview Gardens, London