aristocracy

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As Wooldridge says, Enlightenment thinkers, aiming to match “talent to opportunity and knowledge to power,” stressed the difference between natural aristocracies of talents and artificial aristocracies of breeding and inheritance.

From Washington Post

Julie Montagu, an American viscountess, knows that marrying into British aristocracy isn’t as glamorous as it sounds.

From Fox News

He blames “the new aristocracy” and “invisible monopolies,” but also the divide between “two classes, rising professionals and sinking workers.”

From New York Times

Then there’s sad Prince Yakimov, a down-on-his-luck descendant of the Russian aristocracy who cadges meals and wine throughout “The Balkan Trilogy,” Olivia Manning’s historical novels set at the outbreak of World War II.

From New York Times

Voiced by Dame Julie Andrews, the writer stirred up London's aristocracy by revealing their most intimate secrets in her scandal sheet, while keeping her identity concealed.

From BBC