Jilly Cooper is so twee you can hear her wellies squeak. But her op-ed on Kate Middleton, blue-bloods and the non-U contretemps does contain a neat anecdote:
In 1979 I wrote a book called "Class". It caused an uproar... Not long afterwards I was at a party at Hatchards in Piccadilly. The Duke of Edinburgh came rushing over to me and said didn’t I realise the class system no longer existed. I told him that according to the 1971 census his daughter Princess Anne, as an event rider, was in the same social class as a gamekeeper, social class III (manual). "Rubbish," he snapped. "Keepers are working class."
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