I was gifted a subscription to Private Eye for Christmas and am thoroughly enjoying its exposure of the pomposity and corruption seemingly endemic in the world’s ruling classes, as well as the cartoons of course. However, one regular feature has me baffled. I’m sure the massive includes many Eye readers, so can anyone answer me this: why do they always refer to King Charles as Brian? Is this a recent occurrence or does it go back to when he was plain old Prince of Wales? I’m probably missing something obvious, but I can’t see any connection between him and Life of Brian or Brian Clough (any other famous Brians?). Any ideas, readers?