Sticking to my strategy of always (not never) reading the comments below my work, just in case it gives me a laugh, and today it has paid off
![A screenshot of a comment below an article I wrote for the Telegraph interviewing the son of a baronet which reads:
'While the house is attractive it is disappointing nonetheless to see Eleanor scrapping [sic] the barrel as it were by profiling a Baronet.
There are still around 800 hereditary peers in our land (counting the second divison from Ireland) and I would have thought that there would have been enough material there amongst their lordships for Eleanor to write about.
Come on Eleanor – let's get back to the real aristocracy!'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5swvxq3ulfwg3wbdedloxrsh/bafkreigyav7gpni6h43sztubdjexg6uhtmqvav5qhwx74s74u4malfzgga)
Eleanor Doughty
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Writer on the aristocracy, big houses, old money; author of HEIRS AND GRACES, a history of the modern aristocracy, which is out now! Views my own, yours for £. edoughty92@gmail.com www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305/heir…
!["There is an EdStone in my garden." The original? "You'd have to go and look at it," he says. Where does the motivation for political donation come from? "Political donations are not philanthropic in [the same] sense." There is a pause while he taps a paperclip on the table. Would he like a peerage? "No."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5swvxq3ulfwg3wbdedloxrsh/bafkreifc4gzmp4rf3diyb6otiwqwz7oof2ma2jutvixkrfkz6eu56vbkcm)
