How the British aristocracy preserved their power
This article presents the idea that aristocracy on whole in Britain is as powerful as it ever was - which is a fallacy - the aristocracy was devastated by the death of an entire generation of its best and brightest in World War I, it was bled deeply by taxes between 1918 and 1980, it was stripped largely of its political power (reduction of hereditary peers, removal of the veto power of the House of Lords, removal of the House of Lords as a court of appeal) - those who survived (with wealth) have survived because of either the specific assets they owned - or because of good business savvy, or a combination of both.<p>Consider that a majority of the peerage didn&#x27;t come out still owning estates - most of them fell out into the middle class and &#x27;work for a living&#x27; - even those with great wealth, now mostly act as businessmen rather than merely shepherds of that wealth.