{"id":283692,"date":"2026-01-09T13:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=283692"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:04:41","slug":"the-aristocrats-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2026\/01\/09\/the-aristocrats-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aristocrats, everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" data-attachment-id=\"283693\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2026\/01\/09\/the-aristocrats-everyone\/image-779\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png?fit=1600%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png?fit=525%2C295&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png?resize=525%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-283693\" style=\"width:900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It almost seems like a parody of the British aristocracy: a gentleman named Sir Benjamin Slade, 7th Baronet, is advertising for a mate to give him an &#8220;heir and a spare&#8221; and to look after his two castles. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/son-79-old-british-multimillionaire-121147491.html\">news article<\/a>, he is advertising for applicants, offering a salary of \u00a350,000 per year, along with accommodation, meals, and bonus perks, for a woman who &#8220;meets his detailed list of requirements.&#8221; These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You must not be a Scorpio.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You must not read The Guardian newspaper.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You must not be from countries starting with \u201cI\u201d or with green in their flag<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Taller than 5ft 6in (167 cm)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At least 20 years younger than him (he is 79, so preferably under 60)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A helicopter licence, shotgun licence, driving licence, and legal or accountancy training are listed as bonuses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He also wants someone fit, socially active, and capable of managing his estates and staff.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You must be of childbearing age and a &#8220;good breeder&#8221; capable of producing two sons (an heir and a spare)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s what you are getting, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_Benjamin_Slade,_7th_Baronet\">according to his Wikipedia page<\/a>: Slade was in a relationship with socialite Fiona Aitken, wife of&nbsp;George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon, for a few years during the 1990s. From 1995 to 2011, his partner was actress&nbsp;Kirsten Hughes until, in his words, she &#8220;run off with the handyman&#8221;. In 2017, he split from his partner, domestic worker Bridget Convey, because, at the age of 50, she had become too old to supply him with an&nbsp;heir. In the same year, he advertised for a wife, citing that she should have a shotgun licence, a driving license, a&nbsp;coat of arms, and be young enough to have sons. In addition to rejecting candidates from countries beginning with an &#8216;I&#8217; or with green in the flag (with the exception of Italian and northern Indian women), he says he won&#8217;t accept any candidates who are Scottish, lesbians, and\/or communists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It almost seems like a parody of the British aristocracy: a gentleman named Sir Benjamin Slade, 7th Baronet, is advertising for a mate to give him an &#8220;heir and a spare&#8221; and to look after his two castles. According to a news article, he is advertising for applicants, offering a salary of \u00a350,000 per year, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2026\/01\/09\/the-aristocrats-everyone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Aristocrats, everyone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":true,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283724,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283692\/revisions\/283724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}