Do I, in fact, have an estate in the country and a townhouse? I believe this was common practice for the peerage at the time. If you'd like, I will gladly say that the family's Scottish holdings are in the care of my cousin Angus, and not available for my use (though I'll take him as a contact). But that still leaves me with two pieces of real estate, staff, horses carriages, farmland, etc. which I don't think either of us wants to detail. I'm willing to gloss over it if you are, allotting a chunk of my income to it.
I am also planning to take a contact high in the government. Not the PM, but a senior minister of some kind. Is that OK?