![]() ![]() When on screen, she is usually played by Maggie Smith. For bonus points, there is often a cameo appearance by royalty, and invariably a dowager lurks somewhere, dispensing bons mots with aplomb. ![]() Well-bred, beautiful women will be entangled with equally well-bred but badly behaved men, whose caddish streak betokens either a heart of gold or scarcely contained psychosis, but all will be well with the family estate and the heir apparent by the story’s conclusion. ![]() From Brideshead Revisited to Downton Abbey, via any number of books, films and TV dramas, we all know the constituent parts of the story. Th e continued existence of the English aristocracy is owed, in large part, to the persistent fascination that those lower down the social spectrum have with them. Lady in Waiting, by Anne Glenconner, Hodder & Stoughton, £20 ![]()
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