Duc_et_Pair
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Thanks! I wonder who the wiki definition was written by, as the article does not cite a source to support its definition, which has inconsistencies (for example, the claim that British peerages are substantive titles but substantive titles confers no political or civic prerogatives is contradictory, as in actuality British peerages do confer political prerogatives).
British hereditary peerages do only confer political prerogatives to a very limited group of hereditary peers in the House of Lords and even that remnant (as well the whole unelected House of Lords) is under review as more and more the need for a reform is felt. When the House of Lords is reformed, the virtually last political prerogative of a very small group will become history. Then little will differ a British aristocrat from a Spanish or a Danish aristocrat or so. Just a title and maybe an ancestral estate. That is it.