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Annie, a 68 year old single lady from Huddersfield has just had her twelfth rejection letter from Buckingham Palace after applying for the role of lady of the Bedchamber, 10 times under Queen Elizabeth and twice under Queen Camilla. Annie’s last two applications were requesting a position as one of the Queens Companies, a change Camilla recently made to the job.


According to Annie, although the name has been changed, she believes the duties probably remain unchanged since the 1700’s and she has been practicing carrying full and empty Piss Pots up and down the stairs of her two bedroom terrace house for the last 20 years. Recently she had a fall whilst carry the Pot when it was full to the brim, but luckily it was only carrying Orange squash which she uses for authenticity.


A lifelong Royalist, Annie previously worked as a Lolly pop lady for 30 years and had once had high hopes of one day featuring in the Honours list, an MBE or an OBE based on her year’s service and having twice saved the lives of children on her zebra crossing.


According to reports, with no regard for her own safety, Annie literally pulled the children out of the way of speeding Lorries but as Huddersfield is around 200 miles from London and Annie doesn’t write for the Daily mail, her heroism was ignored.


Recently , it was explained to her by her local MP, the powers that be have deemed it inappropriate to have Northerners at the award ceremonies, speaking funny and shoving chip butties in their gobs and generally being loud. A spokesman pointed out that the north was well represented by Prince Andrew adding, 'and look how that worked out!'






Undeterred Annie is thinking of applying for a role as Pen carrier to King Charles or Tin Opener to Wills and Kate.


Samsung has developed the Samsung Northern, a mobile phone aimed primarily at Northern men.


‘Our other phones typically have 200 emojis’, a spokesman said, ‘to represent the full range of human emotions. Market research in Warrington indicated that 3 would be plenty. It seems that people are intimidated by anything with a broader emotional range than themselves, so we’ve gone with 'Happy, Sad, Don’t Know.'


The Samsung Northern also has a Pienav, which plots the most direct route to the nearest Gregg’s in an emergency. Northerners had mixed emotions about the phone (emoji 3), telling researchers that while it stereotyped Northerners and contributed to an unhealthy and lazy comedy trope used by second-rate satirists, bloody hell there’s a Gregg’s just round the corner.


Image credit: Wix AI and deskpilot

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