Mad Toffs - The British Upper Classes at Their Best and Worst

‘This book is a record of the British upper classes – and a few others – at their best (sometimes their worst), displaying a sort of unhinged blitheness of manner that leads them to say and do strangely unexpected things. It is a quality of innocent insolence, or maybe guileless arrogance, which belongs only to the very rich, the very privileged and the very idle.’
Consider the duke who, on being told by his butler that there was no bread, demanded to know why he had not been brought toast, ...