Styling yourself as Lord or Lady is the height of twattishness?

[GonnaGetGoingReturns]

Googling an old ex of mine and found he's now changed his name (it would appear) to be 'Lord' and his newish wife is 'Lady'.

Don't you think that's the height of twattishness to change your name like that? See also adding a well-known/famous name to your own surname to make it double-barrelled so someone thinks you're related to them, e.g. Jones-Connery. The ex always did have delusions of grandeur!

If you think everyone using the title Lord, Lady, Prince, Princess is twattish, then fine.
But I do not see any difference between buying a title and inheriting it. Neither si earned, both are meaningless.

Online booking for the ROH gave a wonderful range of options — I think I got tickets for Tosca as ‘Admiral’ once. 😀

But I do not see any difference between buying a title and inheriting it. Neither si earned, both are meaningless.

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I bought one for DH as a bit of a jokey present one birthday.

He owns 5 square feet of land in the Lake District.

It was a bit of an in joke between us. He’s never used it, although he has trained Alexa to address him as Lord XX The Great

I was too tight to pay the extra £25 for the couple one so unfortunately I’m not a Lady

Why does that mean they think you will bow and scrape to them? If someone has earned their doctorate, then I say they should absolutely go ahead and use their title if they want to. Maybe they’re just proud of who they are.

If you’re married, do you use Mrs?

I suspect some kids (and probably nieces and newphews) of famous people do this. Change their surname to the famous relative's one or double barrel so that they have a link (and probably a leg up!)

The Lord thing though....just see it as a lucky escape+

I'd love to do this, but only so my brother had to call me it! 😂 no one else! He's always been very Lordy and 'aren't I better than everyone' so it'd be ace to see his face! 😂

If you're born with a title and use it then that's a different sort of choice to not being born with it and going out of your way to get a fake one. The former is the default option for the position you happen to be born with, the latter clearly demonstrates that you think titles are great and impressive and you really wish you had one.

Unless you're a 1930s jazz band leader of course, in which case go right ahead.

Also if you're Lord X because you were given a title for inventing a cure for cancer then feel free to use it all the time.

You know you can just use the title Lady without paying anything. It is not a legally protected title.

@OperationRinka But being born with a title is meaningless. Who decided to give it to your family? A title for your ancestor because they owned land or won a battle? So why would you be called it?
I do not care what titles people use. I judge people who think their meaningless title has more worth than someone else's meaningless title.

Yes, my uncle has done this. Not saying his name as he's estranged from the family - think a usual name like Jones and he's added a sort of obscure name related to a famous author. Thinks it makes him sound posher...

It's on Companies House so looks like it!

Historically aristocratic titles would have been given to people who were the most violent in fighting over land or the ones who sucked up most to royalty, or married into similar. So if he wants to be associated with the inbred descendants of psychos, sycophants and gold-diggers then yep, that marks him out as a twat.

Used to work for a company that had real aristocrats as clients. Some of them wanted letters addressed without the tile, just the "surname", no first name e.g. Lord XXXX would be just addressed as XXXX.

That's a bit different!

I have given myself the title of “The”, realising this may out me 😂if my family are on here. I go by The Hendalle to them (and select friends).

I’ve also always rather fancied the title Admiral. Pity that I wasn’t cut out for a life at sea 😂

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How very dare you... 😉

Of course they're not twattish, as they've inherited them and therefore have the right to use them. And yes it's our English/Scottish feudal system where we hand down titles which is totally wrong really on a class level. But they were born with the right to use the title yes I admit that does sound a bit twattish of me

That's kind of cute and is tongue in cheek.

This man definitely would love to be a real Lord but isn't... when we were having a disagreement he sent me a photo of a castle with grounds which he said was his. I forwarded it to my friend who said "That's a castle in Ireland!"

So funny. DH is a proper Sir. His former wife still uses Lady, despite being divorced 20 years and remarried (for her) 14 years.

If something in the mail comes for him using Sir we know it is usually a bill of some sort.

No, no way. He was never this Lord TwattyMcTwatface before so there was nothing to inherit e.g no title. I know enough about him to know that!

Me either. My actual surname is the same as a very famous actor, and its the most boring question ever. Can't think why you'd fake a name for that

@GonnaGetGoingReturns Born with the right to use them? I do not see the difference with someone paying for the right to use them. I think it is an artificial distinction.
It reminds me of the insult that Heseltine had to buy his furniture rather than inherit it.
It is snobbishness, nothing more. Buying something is wrong, inheriting it is right.

I once came across a Lady Diana, whilst working in a hospital. It was on all her notes and she insisted she was called that. I suppose, for all I know, it could have been her actual name. Was very weird though.

A title e.g. Professor and Dr if you've earned it yes use it.

A landed gentry title you've bought off the internet for £50 smacks of twattyness to me.