Re: I remember Diana, Princess of Wales

On Sep 3, 11:49 am, "William Black" <william.bl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Sep 3, 5:12 am, "William Black" <william.bl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> "Turenne" <richard.licht...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > Nicholas III wrote:
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> >> >>In particular most British Aristocrats are not addressed by their
title
> >> >>followed by their first name.
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> >> > Only sons of marquesses and dukes. Also knights and baronets and
> >> > daughters of dukes, marquesses and earls
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> >> Knights are not aristocrats.
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> >> They are commoners.
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> > "Aristocrat" isn't a technical term, or an equivalent for "peer".  The
> > vast majority of aristocrats were and are commoners (as the British
> > understand the term).  All it means is "upper class", sometimes with
> > the restriction "upper class by inheritance of several generations".
> > What an "aristocrat" was in, say, France or Germany, is another matter
> > entirely.
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> OK.
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> Knights remain commoners.
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> An aristocrat,  to my mind,  is someone who inherits a title.

Then that would exclude the late Diana Spencer Windsor.