Elizabeth's New Show: History’s Greatest Fails

I should have brought it, but I found a photograph.

I was clearing out a box of photographs, which sounds like a task that only happens in novels, but I was actually doing it.

I found a photograph of you in my parents' kitchen.

Don't know what you were doing there.

I do know.

It was my 21st birthday party.

I remember that party.

Do you?

Yeah.

And when I was looking at the photos, I didn't really remember much, but I was like, fuck no, there's Elizabeth.

I don't think I really knew you that well up until that point.

Because how we met, we were both at university together.

And I was dating your friend.

You were.

But I remember you being the year below.

And at that stage in life, it feels like a really big age gap.

And I was like...

Who's this

young

buck? And I don't think we ever really spoke that much, but I was just aware that you were in the vicinity.

And Rick, my then boyfriend, referred to you as Dollar.

He did.

That was

your name, as far as I was concerned.

But then I was invited as Rick's plus one to your 21st.

And it was really lovely because, as you say, it was in your family home.

There was a marquee.

I remember thinking, oh, that's grown up.

You're making me sound a bit posh.

And over the years, we've fallen in and out of contact because our friendship was only really established through podcasting.

And that's when we reconnected.

And I feel like that's when we had our first proper conversation.

And during the course of that conversation, I remember Richard III coming up.

I should have brought it, but I found a photograph.

I was clearing out a box of photographs, which sounds like a task that only happens in novels, but I was actually doing it.

I found a photograph of you in my parents' kitchen.

Don't know what you were doing there.

I do know.

It was my 21st birthday party.

I remember that party.

Do you?

Yeah.

And when I was looking at the photos, I didn't really remember much, but I was like, fuck no, there's Elizabeth.

I don't think I really knew you that well up until that point.

Because how we met, we were both at university together.

And I was dating your friend.

You were.

But I remember you being the year below.

And at that stage in life, it feels like a really big age gap.

And I was like...

Who's this

young

buck? And I don't think we ever really spoke that much, but I was just aware that you were in the vicinity.

And Rick, my then boyfriend, referred to you as Dollar.

He did.

That was

your name, as far as I was concerned.

But then I was invited as Rick's plus one to your 21st.

And it was really lovely because, as you say, it was in your family home.

There was a marquee.

I remember thinking, oh, that's grown up.

You're making me sound a bit posh.

And over the years, we've fallen in and out of contact because our friendship was only really established through podcasting.

And that's when we reconnected.

And I feel like that's when we had our first proper conversation.

And during the course of that conversation, I remember Richard III coming up.