My sincere thanks to Ms. Carol Lillis for sharing with me (and always on short notice) her vast knowledge and expertise regarding the British peerage. Who knew there were that many of them? Your help has been invaluable, Carol, and any mistakes are mine.

I also must thank my favorite British gentleman, Captain Jeremy Steele-Perkins, for his help with my initial question regarding the peers. When I asked him what to call the duke’s mother, meaning what would be her title, he replied, “Well, I just call her Mummy.”

It was at this point that we (Pattie Steele-Perkins and I) looked at each other and brought Ms. Lillis in.