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Originally Posted by Kelli58
Gemma's former husband purchased her a manorial title. She is legally entitled to call herself 'Lady' Gemma Massey.
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I've not got a dog in this fight, but it seems that she is not a Lady.
“The sale of British titles is prohibited by the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act, 1925. However, misleading advertisements for lordships of manors sometimes appear in the media and on the internet. A manorial lordship is not an aristocratic title, but a semi-extinct form of landed property. Lordship in this sense is a synonym for ownership. According to John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary and co-author of The Oxford Guide to Heraldry, ”Lordship of this or that manor is no more a title than Landlord of the Dog and Duck.” It cannot be stated on a passport, and does not entitle the owner to a coat of arms. Beware also of websites selling completely bogus British titles.”
http://www.faketitles.com/
PS I was going to sign up, but you don't run CCBill?