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Heirs and Graces

Heirs and Graces

Doughty, Eleanor

Hardcover

AnthropologyBritish HistoryPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $56.99

ISBN10: 1529153042
ISBN13: 9781529153040
Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 576
Weight: 2.10
Height: 2.29 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, their lives and loves, their foibles and eccentricities. And we entertain the strong suspicion that while they may be fellow citizens, they are very far from being People Like Us.

In Heirs and Graces Eleanor Doughty draws on her unparalleled access to a bewildering range of dukes, duchesses, earls and others to create a vivid picture of who they are and how they tick. En route she traces their progress from a post-war era when they were described by one future Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer as 'selfish, depraved, dissolute and decadent' to their diverse current roles as guardians of vast ancestral mansions, farmers, financiers and much else beside. She looks at key rites of passage, from cradle, via school (there are around 100 future peers at Eton today) to grave. And she tells stories of their ups and downs, and of the doings of the heroes and villains who fill their ranks.

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