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   From: william.black@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   "Turenne"  wrote in message   
   news:1188838828.576977.93220@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...   
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   >> >>In particular most British Aristocrats are not addressed by their title   
   >> >>followed by their first name.   
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   >> > Only sons of marquesses and dukes. Also knights and baronets and   
   >> > daughters of dukes, marquesses and earls   
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   >> Knights are not aristocrats.   
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   > I was merely correcting Nicholas III on the general forms of address.   
   > I am aware that knights are not aristocrats per se, though it isn't   
   > uncommon for someone who has an inherited title also to have a   
   > knighthood.   
      
   It's very uncommon today in the UK.   
      
   I gather that it's not uncommon in Europe amongst the Catholic aristocracy   
      
      
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