Sep 22, 2008, 11:00 GMT
Kate Middleton has been branded a "Sloane".
Kate - the girlfriend of Britain's Prince William - is the epitome of a "Sloane ranger" according to Peter York, author of 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook'.
He told Britian's The Daily Mail newspaper: "Kate is definitely a Sloane, because half of it is about wanting to be one - and she really does."
The term "Sloane" was originally coined in the 60s and is used to describe young upper and upper-middle-class men and women who live in South West London.
According to 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook', some key features of Sloanes include: patriotism, an inflexible belief in the values of upper and upper-middle class culture, self-confidence in both themselves and their place in the world, a fondness of country living, philistinism and anti-intellectualism.
Peter also says he thinks Kate - whose mother used to be an air stewardess and her father a pilot - fits in well with the royal family, and added he does not believe reports some members of the family think she is not good enough to be dating the prince due to her background.
He said: "All that snobbishness about her mother's airline past doesn't come from the royals - it's a horrible habit of some of the people Prince William and Prince Harry have fallen in with."
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