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...Debrett's ranks...
...Aristocrat," as used by Americans about Americans, may be the most abused word in American English. This could be the main dilemma facing the redoubtable chronicler of Britain's titled nobility, Debrett's Peerage, which has set out to publish a ten-volume series on the American aristocracy. Debrett's editor, Martin Stansfeld, an untitled Scot who attended Eton and Oxford and whose family "goes back to the Normans," explains that the series will concentrate on "the glittering star system of America's social leadership...
...Most of the presents received in the past by royalty were never used," remarks H.B. Brooks-Baker of Debrett's Peerage Ltd., publishers of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. "Contrary to popular belief, the Prince doesn't really have anything at all beyond museum pieces, such as signed pieces of furniture and valuable paintings. He doesn't have breakfast china or a toaster...
...spite of the advice given in Debrett's Etiquette and Modern Manners [July 6], the technique for the proper way to eat a pea can be found in these lines remembered from grammar school days...
...Debrett's Etiquette is directly aimed at the anxious middle class in America as well as Britain. Edited by Tennessee-born Elsie Burch Donald, 42, who now lives in England, it will be published in America next month by Viking Press ($25). Says Brooks-Baker: "The last thing the upper classes really care about is whether something goes wrong at a dinner party, but the middle class is very concerned about things like that. We are giving them what they have asked...