Nursie (Patsy Byrne), real name "Bernard", appears in all six episodes of "Blackadder II" and two of the "Blackadder" specials; "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" and "". Once Queenie's childhood nurse, by the time of her appearances in "Blackadder II", Nursie is either senile or otherwise irreversibly stupid, but remains at court at the side of the Queen for unknown reasons, as the Queen repeatedly treats Nursie with contempt. Nursie frequently embarrasses both the Queen and herself by openly recounting tales of the Queen's childhood, prompting Queenie's standard reply of "Shut up, Nursie." She is also known for her complete non-sequiturs in conversation. Lord Blackadder describes her as "a sad, insane old woman with an udder fixation." In the series' finale, she is killed by Prince Ludwig the Indestructible along with the entire main cast. In "Blackadder's Christmas Carol", a vision of the future depicts her as the silliest of Queen Asphyxia XIX's triple husbandoid.