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Proud Day in England Shows Enduring Peerage and Servant Class
Igor Cassini notes that despite Labour Britain and calls for social change, the English peerage remains central. Aristocrats host a wedding for Betty Leveson-Gower at Claridge’s with Dukes, Duchesses, and old Etonian society wearing ostrich plumes. Servants accompany the scene, illustrating the enduring class hierarchy within the British order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leveson-Gower
Claridge
St. Georg Westminster
Real
George Keppel
Fashi
Londonderrys
Roslyns
Castleraghs
Empire
London
Dudley
Gertie Lar
British Isles
Duke of Sutherland
Duke of Westminster
Westminster
England
Duchesses of Sutherland
Devonshire
Norfolk