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Rheumy-eyed earl

Adam Nicolson appears to have grown up among the casual antiquity of aristocratic homes, leaving him with the childhood memory...

How to spot an aristo in disguise and on the run? Check servants for implausibly soft hands. Dead give away.

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How noble can you get? Most aristos trace back to some humble origin until they got a knighthood or some...

A clever lawyer who bides his time and slowly, quietly hoovers up the assets of dissolute aristocrats, while ever fawning...

Of several unbelievable sojourns Leigh Fermor enjoyed in anciently aristocratic homes dotted across central Europe, this may top the lot. ...

This is from an engaging Hungarian novel spanning the lives of a fictional Hungarian aristocratic dynasty, from the Congress of...

Banffy's trilogy of novels on the slow but certain self-destruction of the 19th century Hungarian aristocracy includes the figure of...

John Donne describes an accomplished woman with a wide-ranging capacity to converse intelligently. I like the spectrum he chose: predestination...

Just what you've always wanted, I'm sure. This caught my attention, the existence of silver-handled flyswatters, particularly as it was...