Just what is it like to be a Lord or Lady?
10th September 2019
For
centuries, hereditary titles were dispensed to close allies of the Sovereign as
a mark of the Monarch’s patronage, nowadays hereditary titles are no longer
dispensed and having an existing hereditary title no longer permits one to sit
in the House of Lords. Instead what are known as ‘life peerages’ are awarded
which permit the holder to bear a title and sit in the House of Lords.
On…