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Evelyn Mary Stapleton-Bretherton Fürstin Blücher von Wahlstatt

This was an example in a production meeting and one of my colleagues responded immediately with, "It's Frau Blücher!" She moved back to England after the war styling herself "Evelyn, Princess Blücher" and I like to imagine her going around like Hyacinth Bucket insisting "It's 'blue-SHAY!'".

Honorable mention: Général Marie Joseph Félix Édouard Hardÿ de Périni. (Your eyes do not deceive you; yes, that is a diaeresis over the y. Snaps to him for having the confidence to wear the "Marie" up front instead of burying it in the middle of the string of forenames like most Frenchmen.)

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Hardÿ

Wait, what? What does that even mean?

Snaps to him for having the confidence to wear the "Marie" up front instead of burying it in the middle of the string of forenames like most Frenchmen.

Indeed!

[(Anonymous)]

How about the painter Anne-Louis Trioson? Wonder if his contemporaries called him Arty Annie? Of course, we have the Tracy-Tracey, Marion-Marian versions in English, and Aubrey used to solely be a male name. Gwyn