My username is Duchess Of NC but it's not meant to be insulting. When I was a child my dad was very much into CB Radios. He and my mother had handles. So did my already then grown sisters. My eldest sister turns 50 this year in compared to my 31 that I will be in October. Anyway I digress.

Anyway I was five years old and I wanted my own handle. My Dad teasingly suggested for me to be princess and I replied that I didn't want to be a princess, I wanted to be a duchess. I remember in one of my story books that described the life of a princess as being hard and onerous but her friend who was a duchess had more fun. And no I can't remember where I got the story from. I've spent quite literally a dozen years or so trying to find it.

The of nc is because Duchess plain is usually taken. I have since used duchess as part of my writing pseudonym (I can't spell tonight) which is Duchess McKinnon. The McKinnon coming from of course my Scottish roots. My Dad was very tickled that I had chosen the name combination as my pen name.