Re: I remember Diana, Princess of Wales

"David" <dsalo@[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 Concise Oxford gives only one definition for aristocrat and that is 'a

member of the nobility'.

Allan