Word: debrett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week disaster struck. Mike Kaplan, a reporter for the trade paper Variety, after checking Nugent's credentials at the British consulate, headlined the bad news. The consulate's information officer had reported that Nugent was not listed in either Debrett's or Burke's Peerage...
With British pluck. Lord Nugent fought back. Fluttering his credentials in a TV interview, he explained that he was in Debrett's and Burke's but listed under the name of a relative, the Earl of Westmeath. Nugent further explained that his family's patriotism was the cause of all the trouble. An Irish ancestor named Walter Nugent served with other relatives in the Austrian army and was made Baron Nugent of Clonlost by the Emperor Franz Josef in 1859. When the first baron's descendants returned to England, the title was authenticated by a royal...
...enthusiasm and gratitude, Britain seemed ready last week to deify Sir Winston Churchill on the spot as he made his stately progress toward his 80th birthday. Birthday gifts poured into 10 Downing Street; his birthday fund passed $300,000 and was still rising. Debrett's editor rummaged through Churchill's female ancestry and announced happily that Churchill was of blood royal, through Henry VII, and therefore a descendant of Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror. Parliament itself bustled over preparations for the unprecedented ceremony this week in the great hall which King William Rufus began...
...third great bluebook, Debrett's Peerage, concerns itself less with genealogy and more with cataloguing present nobility...
...keep from stumbling in matters of royal protocol. The Dallas Times-Herald asked the British consul to sit in the newsroom as an adviser on ceremony and mourning. Manhattan's Herald Tribute hastily bought a clear, factual story on royal succession, titles, etc., by Editor Cyril Hankinson of Debrett's Peerage...