Word: debrett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caveat: If you feel you need a professional researcher, write for a list of qualified practitioners to the Board for Certification of Genealogists, 1307 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Average hourly fee: up to $10. For Anglo-Americans, Debrett's of London, the guru of British pedigree and form, opened a tracing bureau for the common man in February and received more than 1,000 inquiries its first month. For easy-to-trace families, Debrett's can deliver eight generations for roughly $200. In the U.S., there is a nourishing mail-order trade in expensive coats...
...entitled to be addressed as Her Royal Highness. In accordance with King George VTs decision, the former Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, after her marriage to the man who had been King Edward VIM, had to be content with being a mere duchess. Now Patrick Montague-Smith, editor of Debrett's, the authoritative guide to the British aristocracy, says it was all a mistake. The rules of British heraldry permit a wife to take her title from her husband, and since Edward remained a Royal Highness after his abdication, the duchess should have been called Her Royal Highness...
Part of the trouble was that Sir Francis (family crest, according to Debrett's, "two hazel nuts slipped proper"; family motto, "Le Maitre Vient") frequently went on extended trips attending to his real estate business. That left Lady Peek alone with the butler, Maurice, who was paid only $36 a week, testified that Lady Peek began giving him money "to buy shirts...