How much aristocracy still exists in Britain?

Well, they are still there and lots of them are still rich. And people still care about the status a title gives you even if it is otherwise meaningless. read more

Well, they are still there and lots of them are still rich. And people still care about the status a title gives you even if it is otherwise meaningless. (There's a case before the Supreme Court at the moment over who should inherit a baronetcy. read more

And the English aristocracy has maintained its identity to a degree that then seemed impossible." Naturally, there is more to aristocratic survival than the ability – with or without the help of the National Trust – to refurbish your ancestral home and throw it open to the tourists, as the Devonshires did with Chatsworth when faced with several million pounds' worth of death duties in the early 1950s. read more

The top private landowner, not just in Britain but Europe, is the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury, whose four sumptuous estates cover 240,000 acres in England and Scotland. But while his land is the most vast, it is not the most valuable, as the net worth depends on how much is farmland, as well as the value of the property and sporting and heritage activities on it. read more