UNLESS your home is Buckingham Palace you don’t get more blue blooded than a duke.
As Debrett’s guide to the aristocracy puts it: “Duke is the highest of the five ranks of the peerage, standing above the ranks of marquess, earl, viscount and baron.”
But the increasingly lurid behaviour of Alexander Charles David Drogo Montagu, 52, the 13th Duke of Manchester, shows that a noble lineage that stretches back 1,000 years to the time of William the Conqueror is no guarantee of good form in the present generation.
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And a Note on the Manchesters and our show, getting ready to launch, En-Titled-Elites, to air on Freedom Interactive TV in the first quarter of 2019.
Sorry we left this one slip by but at least we now have links to their Graces Facebook Pages, separate, naturally, on our show site for the Manchesters.
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