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In the Mitchell and Webb sketch about Sir Walter Raleigh naming Virginia, it is remarked that it seems "rude to call a land after the fact that our Queen've never done it". Do we know his exact reasoning as to why choose that name rather than, say, Lizzieland?

by /u/LukeInTheSkyWith in /r/AskHistorians

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