Do you like the crusts cut off your toast… or are you a married man who never wears a wedding ring like Wills? Here are the tell-tale signs one’s properly pukka
David Cameron is so posh he likes having someone cut the crusts off his toast — according to a Tory MP who has breakfasted with him.
This compares with Jeremy Paxman’s tale about the Prince of Wales (which Charles denied) that seven eggs are cooked for him each morning, ranging from runny to hard-boiled, so he can test them before choosing one.
Here, MATTHEW BELL offers a genteel guide to the foibles of the uber-posh . . .
SLIPPERS WITH A CREST
Many aristocrats have slippers monogrammed with their initials. Firms such as Shipton & Heneage specialize in them — made and embroidered by hand in the UK ‘from the finest-quality velvets and leathers’ and finished with a satin lining.
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Retailing at £310 a pair, they can be customized with a family crest.
Old Etonians such as Mr. Cameron can buy slippers available only to alumni of the school and sold at outfitters New & Lingwood on Eton High Street.
They come in corduroy — maroon, dark blue or bottle green — with a black leather sole. Old Etonian Charles Moore (Mrs. Thatcher’s official biographer) ordered a pair for his birthday some years ago.
What’s more, the well-heeled often take their slippers when they visit friends as they don’t like to pad around in their socks.
Old Etonians such as Mr. Cameron can buy slippers available only to alumni of the school
WEDDING RINGS ARE SHOWY
Really grand men never wear a wedding ring. Prince William is proof, as…