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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7117687" data-attributes="member: 6777052">To save you looking them up in Burke's, Hortense is the unmarried eldest daughter of the late Marmaduke House, IX[sup]th[/sup] Duke of Strathbogle; her younger sister Florence married a baronet, the Hon Mutch Trainger, and Terri is their daughter. Her surname is hyphenated because technically her mother, as the daughter of a duke, outranks her father, who is only the son of an earl, and at the dinner table she gets the extra spoon. The family are in straightened circumstances because Mutch invested heavily in walrus mining at a time when all the smart money was moving into offshore banking, and he lost the lot.I'd steer clear of giving your characters noble backgrounds, it can get awfully complicated.</blockquote>