Debrett's Peerage Ltd

Preface When I was a child anything that went bang gave me an enormous amount of pleasure, the amount derived being in direct proportion to the size of the explosion. Now, in my twenty-seventh year this is still very much the case, which leads me to begin by asking the rhetorical question: When...

Introduction Invited to supply an introduction to this latest exposé of the habitat of an undoubtedly endangered species, my first thought was that it would be great fian. My second was that it would be impossible. English gentlemen simply do not have mistresses. Edward VII? He was at least...