The British aristocracy: how gossipy memoirs feed national fascination with privileged elites
The British aristocracy: how gossipy memoirs feed national fascination with privileged elites: They don’t dominate parliament, they don’t own Twitter and they don’t star in big Hollywood movies. Yet the British aristocracy’s capacity to intrigue and enthral seems boundless. The continuing popularity of the TV and film series Downton Abbey, Evelyn Waugh’s upper-crust novel Brideshead …