Aristocratic - should I be ashamed?

Well, obviously you can't help being from that type of family, just like I can't help being from a relatively working class, poor family, and I sometimes get belittled/mocked/judged for that. But I think that people will judge on what you stand for, rather than who you are as a person. It's like when people hate on the royal family: its not THEM they hate, its the fact that in many people's eyes (including mine) they represent elitism and not the common good of Britain. Many of the people who you meet may instantly judge you as a posh t**t because they don't agree with your family and its wealth - there are so many people living in poverty around you and therefore it seems selfish that you and your family have no such issues. Statistics recently showed that the five richest families in Britain have more money put together than the poorest 120,000 - does this really seem fair to you? Probably not.

But having said all this, it's unfair to judge you as a 'posh t**t who hasn't experienced any hardship or problems' simply because of your background. I for one know I wouldn't do this, even though your family's wealth would make me feel really angry. I just think it's a shame how there is such a great deal of inequality, and for many people, your lifestyle, and the lifestyle of your family, seems immoral and unfair. But they should get to know you before judging.

Wealth? My family is one of those 'sit in the country house freezing to death because we can't afford to heat the place' types...

and yet you went to a public school?

You clearly don't know enough about the financial priorities of aristocratic families.

I just don't really get how you're saying you can't afford stuff and at the same time you went to a private school probably costing more than £5000 per term? It doesn't make sense, surely heating a house is far more important?

You're an aristocrat yet you're going to Newcastle.

I didn't say I can't afford stuff at all, I just made a remark about how we're not that type of aristocratic family with loads of money that the other person was thinking in assuming I had lots of wealth in the family. We're obviously not poor, just nowhere near the wealth of what people assume aristocratic families have. The thing about heating the house is a joke (because that's the imagine a lot of people have about "poorer" families who have lost all there money). Going to public school is a tradition away which would be a big priority within the family.

did you get in on merit or just because of your background like the royals?

People like you and what you've just said is the exact reason I need to feel ashamed of being from an aristocratic family.

Not ashamed, no. It just gets to me how some people (like the royals) live privileged lives simply because of some battle that took place hundreds of years ago. It's not fair that some people are born with all the advantages whilst others, either because of family or location of birth, are not given those advantages. That's what I have an issue with, like, why the hell did Prince Charles get into Cambridge? No reason at all other than the fact he's Prince Charles. And that's not fair. That's why I resent people like you - on principle of the fact that you have so many advantages and such a privileged life relative to others, and you haven't even worked for that. It's so wrong.

But I don't resent YOU as a person, because I don't know you. I just resent what you stand for. You should read Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer