I take it you’re not from the US because this literally makes me as a US American want to just laugh for a half hour. Who would even want that nowadays?
Even coming from a country that still has a royal family and a noble class, I find that very strange. The main route to being made “noble” in Britain is to be a politician or else to retire from the uppermost ranks of the judiciary, the civil service, military and police officers, and Anglican bishops. Although they are technically nobility, they are not really thought of as such, as the status is for the lifetime of the holder of the title only. One recently ennobled peer, Lord Bird, used to wash dishes in the parliamentary canteen. It certainly isn’t considered particularly manly to be a peer of the realm. Indeed, many peers of the realm are now women.
The fact is that this country, like the United States, was built on the labour of working-class men (and women): soldiers, sailors, farmhands, coalminers, quarrymen, navvies, workers in the textile mills and steel mills. My grandfather was a senior NCO, a tool maker, and, after the death of his first wife, a single parent. After the war, he didn’t even accept the medals to which he was entitled, so I’m sure he never contemplated becoming an aristocrat.
