This book is an effort to do for Britain what the Forbes 400 list has
done for America, which is to promote the art of fawning. It averages half
a page of information per name, and most descriptions include photographs.
As the jacket blurb notes, "the United Kingdom is still the home of
aristocracy: The Queen, of course, is not only the richest person in the
land, but the richest woman in the world. More than half of the great
estates of the last century are still intact, and over one hundred of the
Rich sit, unelected, in the House of Lords.... Also included are car dealers
and furniture moguls, hoteliers and brewers -- even a pornography king. The
one thing they all have in common is their money." The number of aristocrats
totals 103 out of 400, and the number of knights totals 31. But it's not as
bad as it looks, because the introduction carefully points out that "some of
[the knights] represent the wealth of the New Britain."
ISBN 0-312-05163-8
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