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This book is for my wife Diana and our siblings, Carol, Fiona, James, Neil, Adam, Charles, and Jo-Jo, together with others whom I may have inadvertently overlooked.
First words
I have already remarked in an earlier study of upper class mores that whereas most English Gentlemen's Wives are ready (and in some cases even eager) to have children, they hand them over as soon as they decently can to professional nannies to be brought up.