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To: naturalman1975
Honestly, I see all these references to an American comic and wonder why anybody thinks it has any relevance at all to anything in the UK.

People in Britain are not thinking of Archie comics when they hear this name - they’re just not well enough known there.

Is Archie Bunker (a character on US TV) any better known to Brits?

As a traditionalist, I’m not a fan of the name because I don’t think it matches royal tradition

TBH neither am I.

ff

20 posted on 05/08/2019 5:50:43 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: foreverfree
Is Archie Bunker (a character on US TV) any better known to Brits?

Not really.

It's widely believed that 'All in the Family' was modelled on an earlier British sitcom 'Till Death Us Do Part' and that Archie Bunker was modelled on its lead character Alf Garnett - whatever the truth of that, while it may have got aired at some point in the UK, it would have been seen as an American copy and to the best of my knowledge didn't get much attention, whereas 'Till Death Us Do Part' is considered a classic.

25 posted on 05/08/2019 6:18:53 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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