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One was based on class power of early merchant capitalists and the other based on the caste power of the Southern white gentry.

Newsom, for all his highfalutin rhetoric about championing all Californians, just can’t quit the gentry and the insiders who have made his career.

Firstly, Holyrood is a democratically elected house rather than an assembly of aristocrats and the landed gentry.

“He’s making the point that the British landed gentry aristocracy really are the original gangsters of the British class society,” says Daniel Ings, who plays the duke’s older brother.

Dr. Guy says that dropping the "ap" was a change which happened over time, and that the gentry led, with the rest of the population then following.