Eleanor Doughty
@brushingboots.bsky.social
Writer on the aristocracy, big houses, old money; author of HEIRS AND GRACES, a history of the modern aristocracy, which is out now! Views my own, yours for £. [email protected]
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305/heirs-and-graces-by-doughty-eleanor/
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305/heirs-and-graces-by-doughty-eleanor/
How kind, thank you very much!
January 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
How kind, thank you very much!
This is the first proper newspaper profile of Timothy Radcliffe since he became a cardinal and I don’t mind saying that I am jolly pleased with it
January 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
This is the first proper newspaper profile of Timothy Radcliffe since he became a cardinal and I don’t mind saying that I am jolly pleased with it
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What's so sad about when people get totally het up about one single line in a piece is that they miss the genuinely amazing bits. I'm feeling generous so this is one of them – the 3rd Lord Leconfield talking to the late Pamela Leconfield. Just outstanding. God bless the aristocracy, eh
January 5, 2026 at 9:19 AM
What's so sad about when people get totally het up about one single line in a piece is that they miss the genuinely amazing bits. I'm feeling generous so this is one of them – the 3rd Lord Leconfield talking to the late Pamela Leconfield. Just outstanding. God bless the aristocracy, eh
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A lot of people in the comments – which I have been reading with an amused smile and responding to, killing their fury with abject kindness – seem to have got totally the wrong end of the stick about him but oh well!! My job is so great!
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fd78733...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fd78733...
‘I inherited 17,000 acres at 24. Rich people like me should pay tax and not complain’
Great Estates: Lord Egremont lives in one wing of his ancestral home. The National Trust runs the rest
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 9:19 AM
A lot of people in the comments – which I have been reading with an amused smile and responding to, killing their fury with abject kindness – seem to have got totally the wrong end of the stick about him but oh well!! My job is so great!
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fd78733...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fd78733...
What's so sad about when people get totally het up about one single line in a piece is that they miss the genuinely amazing bits. I'm feeling generous so this is one of them – the 3rd Lord Leconfield talking to the late Pamela Leconfield. Just outstanding. God bless the aristocracy, eh
January 5, 2026 at 9:19 AM
What's so sad about when people get totally het up about one single line in a piece is that they miss the genuinely amazing bits. I'm feeling generous so this is one of them – the 3rd Lord Leconfield talking to the late Pamela Leconfield. Just outstanding. God bless the aristocracy, eh
A lot of people in the comments – which I have been reading with an amused smile and responding to, killing their fury with abject kindness – seem to have got totally the wrong end of the stick about him but oh well!! My job is so great!
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fd78733...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fd78733...
‘I inherited 17,000 acres at 24. Rich people like me should pay tax and not complain’
Great Estates: Lord Egremont lives in one wing of his ancestral home. The National Trust runs the rest
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 9:19 AM
A lot of people in the comments – which I have been reading with an amused smile and responding to, killing their fury with abject kindness – seem to have got totally the wrong end of the stick about him but oh well!! My job is so great!
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fd78733...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/fd78733...
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And if you are an editor who wants someone who genuinely knows about Lords reform today and/or the general state of the upper class and is in touch with hundreds of peers, including – as in this piece – the biggest landowners in the country, then I’m your girl. There is always more to say about it!
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
And if you are an editor who wants someone who genuinely knows about Lords reform today and/or the general state of the upper class and is in touch with hundreds of peers, including – as in this piece – the biggest landowners in the country, then I’m your girl. There is always more to say about it!
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In case you somehow missed it, I have recently written a whole book, HEIRS AND GRACES, on the modern aristocracy which you can buy in all good or bad bookshops! There is a whole chapter on the Lords in it and it is also very good, if I may so! All links here
www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305...
Heirs and Graces
There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, t...
www.penguin.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In case you somehow missed it, I have recently written a whole book, HEIRS AND GRACES, on the modern aristocracy which you can buy in all good or bad bookshops! There is a whole chapter on the Lords in it and it is also very good, if I may so! All links here
www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/453305...
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I couldn’t resist including a reference to Wogan Milford here, the only Communist member of the Lords ever. After he made his maiden speech denouncing his own position Attlee stood up and said that it was ‘an advantage of hereditary representation’ that a Communist could sit in the Lords at all
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I couldn’t resist including a reference to Wogan Milford here, the only Communist member of the Lords ever. After he made his maiden speech denouncing his own position Attlee stood up and said that it was ‘an advantage of hereditary representation’ that a Communist could sit in the Lords at all
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The headline is rightly a bit glib but there is a serious point to be made about political independence and the role that the working hereds today have. The peer in this piece that said that people who defend heredity slowly go mad is right, but I’ll take that over modern prime ministerial patronage
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The headline is rightly a bit glib but there is a serious point to be made about political independence and the role that the working hereds today have. The peer in this piece that said that people who defend heredity slowly go mad is right, but I’ll take that over modern prime ministerial patronage
I have spent some time this afternoon replying to Times commenters below my piece and truly, it has been fun and really interesting! Almost everyone has been very respectful and thoughtful and the only person that wasn't apologised for being rude. Honestly, a win
December 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I have spent some time this afternoon replying to Times commenters below my piece and truly, it has been fun and really interesting! Almost everyone has been very respectful and thoughtful and the only person that wasn't apologised for being rude. Honestly, a win
And if you are an editor who wants someone who genuinely knows about Lords reform today and/or the general state of the upper class and is in touch with hundreds of peers, including – as in this piece – the biggest landowners in the country, then I’m your girl. There is always more to say about it!
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
And if you are an editor who wants someone who genuinely knows about Lords reform today and/or the general state of the upper class and is in touch with hundreds of peers, including – as in this piece – the biggest landowners in the country, then I’m your girl. There is always more to say about it!