📚 Detlev Piltz's new book England reads like a guidebook for any German lawyers who might wish to impersonate an English aristocrat – badly
'I think class is the biggest pest that has ever been invented': the State Opening of the House of Lords in 2019Detlev Piltz is a German lawyer who is bewitched by the English class system. “A class of its own” is his subtitle. He is a fan of England and Englishness . He is diligent. There is no piece of culture related to the class system he has not read – quotations from George Orwell and Oscar Wilde and Ferdinand Mount fill his pages.
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