Losing Status Symbols
One quaint privilege a British peer still has is a silk cord instead of the usual hemp rope when he is hanged. The Duke of Atholl has the right to be hanged from a gallows 30ft higher than anyone else. Both privileges will disappear soon if a nohanging bill now going through Parliament becomes law.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30688, 2 March 1965, Page 13
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58Losing Status Symbols Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30688, 2 March 1965, Page 13
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