Easter egg: On Disc 2 of the Red Dwarf Series III DVD go to the bonus features and wait for the morphing object to turn into a white rabbit. Click it and you will find the animated short for this series with Ed Bye, Rob Grant and Dooug Naylor.
Easter egg: On disc 2 of the Red Dwarf series III DVD go to bonus features animated menu and enter the gallery. Following this enter the 'models and covers' section and press next until you come to a schematic drawing of Starbug. Press up and you will be able to click on the picture. Doing this takes you to a short commericial for a model Starbug playset.
Easter egg: On disc one of the Red Dwarf series III DVD enter the select episode option and wait as the music plays itself out twice. on the third time a polymorth will crawl across the screen from the left side box. go to 'drive room' and when the polymorth reaches the centre of the screen press down and hit enter. This will take you to a rare scene from 'Polymorth'.
Answer: It's Queen Victoria, someone any Englishman would recognize, and needed no introduction.
Kryten was introducing the "people" to Rimmer. Rimmer isn't an Englishman; he's not even from Earth; he's from Io.