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Old 12-20-2018, 06:46 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
Excellent find. Still, I think style might mandate adopting one's new country's mores in toto, rather than trying to skim most favorable from new and old. But everyone loves a lord (or lady).
I wonder if that document I found (there was no indication of where it was from, by the way) indicates that it had been the norm for foreign titles to continue to be used even when the individual was resident in England. I see this decision that it should stop as part of the changing times after the Great War.
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