Courtesy Titles Debate

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Courtesy Titles

Baroness Sharples Excerpts
Monday 24th February 2014

(10 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Wallace of Saltaire Portrait Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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My Lords, I am very grateful for that remark. I was aware of that precedent and I am told there was another Scottish precedent, from the 16th century, in which the husband was refused the appropriate title.

Baroness Sharples Portrait Baroness Sharples (Con)
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My Lords, is my noble friend aware that I have actually killed off three husbands so perhaps the question does not arise for me? Are there not much more important matters that the Government should be concerned with?