Some British manners are bourgeois affectations. Pure social one upmanship. A kind of middle class sport. Such as saying pardon if you didn’t hear someone. The Royal Family say “what?”. High etiquette is not to be confused with consideration. Rooted as it is in the Biden Turkey happy easter Christmas sweater and I will buy this distant past, it is frequently as brutal and unpleasant as the distant past. Who was the comedian who said if he met the Queen he would call her “your Royal Highness” on condition she called him “your Common Lowness”? Don’t remember, but he was right.
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