- I wonder if there's a slang for equerry. Like-
- "You an EQ?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm an EQ at Buck House."
- Yeah.
- EQ. Meet you at Nott Cott.
- Nott Cott.
- Stat. Probably wouldn't say that.
Welcome to the Royal British Slang, with...
- Emma Corrin...
- And Josh O'Connor.
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- Equerry. Oh, this is good. Equerry.
- Well. We know a little something about this.
- Like the right-hand man to the Queen.
- Yeah, like an assistant. Like a PA.
- An assistant. Like a PA.
The equerry's the ones that will, like, get you out-
get a person out of the car and be like,
"oh, come this way," and "oh, she'll be with you in five."
- And also plan their schedules.
I think it's like the highest, I think-
- Is Richard Adeane an equerry?
- Yeah. Richard Goulding was-
- Richard Goulding was his-
- Adeane-
- Edward Adeane!
- Edward Adeane in this series of "The Crown."
But I think it's the highest level.
- Nott Cott.
- Something Cottage.
- [both] Nottingham Cottage!
- HRH.
- HRH, stands for "Her" or "His Royal Highness."
- Can it be "his" as well?
- I don't know.
- Yeah, that would make sense.
- I think yes. I think it can,
because you can get HRH Prince Charles, I think.
I don't know. I really need to know this.
- Elevenses.
Snacks, right?
- Well, interestingly, we have sat by a cup of tea.
- Or a bowl of tea.
- My understanding with elevenses is like,
there are sort of two tea times.
- One at 11 in the morning...
- Yeah, like a mid-morning snack.
- And then one at teatime, which is like four o'clock?
- Yeah.
- But can four o'clock be elevenses or is that tea?
- That's tea.
- I think that's tea.
- Elevenses is-
- Is at eleven.
- Very much mid-morning.
But not to be confused with brunch, which may come up later.
- Maybe brunch is like the new elevenses.
- Maybe. Thank you, Emma Corrin.
- That's what I get when I pass go.
[both laugh]
- Buck House?
- Great.
- Okay!
[both laugh]
- Do you know what that one is?
- It's got to be a house.
We've got- second half is to do with a home.
Oh, hang on. Buckingham Palace!
[gasps]
- Buck House!
[snaps]
- That's them saying... that's like me going-
- Saying stable.
- [laughs] stable, yeah.
I mean, they probably have stables in there, but...
- Blue blood. Oh, that means like royal blood.
Like you're well posh.
Do you have to be in the Royal Family to have blue blood,
or can it be anyone whose... like, would-
- Oh, yeah. Would you-
- Does Diana have blue...?
'Cause in my research, I found out that she's actually-
- Aristocracy.
- More aristocratic than the Royal Family.
- Interestingly, blue is the most royal color.
I always thought it was-
- I thought it was purple.
- Really?
- What did you-
- It might be, actually.
I always thought it was red.
Then someone said to me the other day that
blue was the most-
- I don't know, I thought it was purple, innit?
- Well, it might be.
- From like, Romans.
- Blue was a very expensive color,
because the pigment came from a very rare rock.
Anyway-
- But that also might be why,
because then if you're a royal, you can afford the pigment-
- The pigment.
- Therefore, blue being...
- In your blood.
- Yeah.
OBE. Of the British...
- Empire.
- Empire?
- Of the British Empire.
And that's an award you get, right?
- Yeah. If you've done good things.
- You get an OBE if you've done good things that have-
- Helped the country?
- Helped the country, or society, or...
We don't.
- We don't. We definitely don't.
- We don't have an OBE.
But there might be someone that we know, maybe, out there.
- Investiture. Go for it.
- The investiture is... is an episode of "The Crown."
You are invested into a role in the Royal Family.
- It's like a swearing-in ceremony.
- Yeah, exactly.
In Season 3,
Prince Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales,
the heir apparent.
The heir apparent is the assumed heir.
- The guy who's there.
- The person who's gonna take over from-
that'll be the next one.
- He's gonna be it. Apparently, it's him.
- Not entirely sure that's where it's from, Em.
It could be.
"Apparently, he's the heir."
- Yeah.
- [Both] Heir apparent.
- Next up! The privy purse.
Oh, like the Queen's money.
- It's their pocket money, right?
I wonder if there is a real privy purse.
- Like an actual- I'm imagining
one of the little old ones you get with the clasp.
- Okay. Operation London Bridge.
- Bridges! Sorry. [laughs]
When one of the Royal Families dies.
They're all bridges.
- Oh my goodness, you're brilliant. Yeah.
[snaps]
- Each of the Royal Family has an assigned bridge,
and when they die, there's Operation...
So if, say the Queen is London Bridge.
Then if the Queen dies, then everyone's like,
"oh, Operation London Bridge."
- That's exactly right.
They all have a different bridge, don't they?
- Yeah, they all have a different bridge.
Can you remember what bridge you are?
- No.
- I don't think I got a bridge.
- I'm sure Diana...
- I'll be the Dartford Crossing.
- That's a rubbish bridge.
Okay. Toff. Well, that's easy.
- I just think of toff room.
A posh person.
- Posh person.
I guess it's more kind of a pompous-
- English. Like...
- English. Sort of like, very, very posh.
- [mocking pompous sounds]
- Very rah. That's another term, "rah."
Weirdly, I wouldn't describe the Royals as toffs,
because they're sort of-
- Rahs aren't toffs,
but maybe people who they hang out with would be toffs.
- Yeah. So anyway, that's what a toff is.
It's a very posh person.
- Very posh person.
- Sloane Ranger!
So, Diana was part of like,
Sloane Rangers who were just young posh people in...
- Kensington.
- In Kensington.
- There's a place called Sloane Square.
- In the 70s, 80s.
- Yeah, and you can be a Sloaney.
- You can be a Sloane.
And they all kind of dressed the same
and wore the same things.
- I think they were quite trendy back then.
- Very trendy to be a Sloane Ranger.
- I'd say Diana was a Sloane Ranger and Charles wasn't.
- Do you think maybe he wanted to be?
- Charles probably erring on the side of toff.
Okay, here we go, trooping the color. Emma Corrin.
- That's when they got on the horses.
- That's right. There you go. You heard it here first.
In fact, the first episode of Season Four, I think-
- There's like a big parade, the Queen's there.
- Basically, all the horse guards assemble.
- On horse guards' parade.
- On horse guards' parade. And they do a sort of-
no, I'm not going to use the word "dance."
But it is a sort of dance.
- It's when the horses-
- And they hold their guns. And there's a big cannon fire.
[imitates canon fire]
- And the Queen comes out in a carriage, right?
- Queen comes out in a carriage.
If I'm honest, having experienced it,
I can't really imagine it being particularly useful
in a battle.
- Yeah.
- But I can see how it might be ceremonial.
Anyway, that's the end of
our British Royal slang learning experience
journey, if you will.
- I feel like I've learned a lot.
- I learned everything...
pretty much everything that was on there was new to me.
- Completely everything new, yeah.
- Probably do this before we do the series
so that we know what we're going to talk about.
- Yeah.
- Thank you so much for joining us today.
- Thank you.
- I feel like we've just done the news.
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you know how the news comes up and then they talk?