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The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the gentry of the British Isles. Though the UK is today a constitutional monarchy with strong democratic elements, historically the British Isles were more predisposed towards aristocratic governance in which power was largely inherited and shared amongst a noble class.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
The son of the current Duke of Northumberland has the courtesy title of Earl Percy, and is addressed and referred to as "Lord Percy".. If a peer of one of the top three ranks of the peerage (a duke, a marquess or an earl) has more than one title, his eldest son – himself not a peer – may use one of his father's lesser titles "by courtesy".
A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance [clarification needed], and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.
L. Lady Mary Bruce; Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer; Margaret Coke, Countess of Leicester; Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield; Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln
Aristocrats are some of the richest people in Britain and at the top of the list for those types of people is 28-year-old Hugh Grosvenor, the 7th Duke of Westminster, according the Sunday Times ...
The historian David Crouch defined baron as "the greatest men in the aristocracy (whether they were earls, barons or not), men habitually at court, lords of great estates, those indeed whom the king consulted in the affairs of the realm". [22] The fiefs of earls and barons were called "honours". The honours were not compact territorial units.