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Hugh Peskett, Genealogist to Debrett...
...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...
...veteran political reporter from Washington, London Correspondent Lansing Lament says that this week's cover story on Britain's Prince Charles was his toughest assignment yet. "I had to become an instant Welsh historian and an amateur genealogist of the royal family." He also had to become a gossip columnist of sorts. In London discotheques and at private parties, he collected scraps of anecdotes from sources within the royal circle. Those scraps, he says, "helped immensely to illuminate the human side of that aloofly detached institution known as the British monarchy. Once the pieces were assembled, a mosaic...
Nothing earns so much sympathy these days as the plight of the second-class citizen, and even the Duchess of Windsor, 70, qualifies. The Duchess "has been officially relegated to the position of a second-class wife," complains British Genealogist Philip Thomas in the latest edition of the authoritative Burke's Peerage. The harsh terms of her morganatic marriage to the abdicated King Edward VIII in 1937 were "the most flagrant act of discrimination in the whole history of our dynasty," Thomas fumed, arguing that she ought to be recognized as the "consort of a royal prince" and referred...
Giving money turned out to be less rewarding than making it. People talked about the guilt complex that drove Nuffield; the Establishment, for which he had no use anyhow, scorned him as a parvenu. Angrily, he hired a genealogist, who traced his family to Oxfordshire gentry of 1278, a date few noble lords hark back to. Then W.R.M., as friends called him, retired deeper into the shade and kept six secretaries busy sorting the 2,000 requests for funds he received weekly. Toward the end, Nuffield began to complain that "they like me for my money instead of myself," sometimes...