aristocracy

Earl Spencer talks about how little he cares for "archaic" titles for the aristocracy or royals.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Upon his arrival in London, Mai became something of a celebrity among the aristocracy, and was welcomed by King George III.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Ms. Allen, a professor at Harvard, claims to have discovered a secret impresario of radical political thinking in the highest reaches of the British aristocracy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

But “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is less concerned about the aristocracy than what life is like for smallfolk like Dunk, an orphan who spent his early childhood scraping by in Flea Bottom.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

Adams was fully prepared to include Jefferson as a charter member of the natural aristocracy that made and then secured the American Revolution.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

From this combination a meritocracy emerged, supplanting aristocracies in lands where feudalism had been weakened by progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

Representative government likely has deeper roots than monarchies or aristocracies.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

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 ● Aug. 6, 2021

In the Adams formulation, aristocracies were to society as the passions were to the individual personality, permanent fixtures susceptible to disciplined containment and artful channeling, but never altogether removable.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis