HordHolm
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Sorry, in addition to my previous comment - a knight is addressed as e.g. "Sir William". He is at perfect liberty to ask people to just call him William, though he might want to use the Sir when booking a table at a restaurant or reserving tickets for something. Anyone called Sir William these days will have started out in life just called William, and won't have picked up the Sir until relatively late in life, though there is a Sir Jason Kenny, an Olympic cyclist who was knighted a couple of years ago at the age of 32 or 33. But this is an outlier - most knights will be getting on in years these days.I have a minor character in an upcoming story (current time period)
MC owns a business and makes contact with a UK company owned by 'Sir William Bearington' Call him wealthy but not stinking rich. Think net worth in the 8 to 15 million pound range, not the hundred+ million pound range. Income in the perhaps half-million pound range annually.
I want him to be the lowest of the elite, or near elite and high...ish ranking. I'm thinking technically a knight, but I cannot get a good explanation of that rank. Duke down to Baron has a thousand articles. Knight never seems to be properly explained.
Can anyone from the UK properly explain how the ranks at the bottom end of the elite work? Also, my goal is to not have my MC always calling the guy 'My lord' or such. 'Sir William Bearington' is a nice guy and wants to be called 'William'.
Also. Anything I should know so my story does not look completely stupid to the considerable UK readership here?