I disagree with most of this...
I wasn't going to contribute to this thread because I was very spoilt and went to a public school (not a cunt though!).

All this pandering to the notion that 'old money behaves well' is in my experience bullshit. My school was twinned with Harrow, and I knew some really wealthy blokes there, old money, one was a member of the Belgium royal family. And they were TWATS.

Either twats, or too stupid to be malicious or annoying and were therefore just blank. You guys remember that sloane on Big Brother a couple years ago, George? Knew him...huge twat, and his family own half of Surrey, have done for centuries.

I find often old money is just as annoying as new, but old tends to have more of a sense of entitlement, and god forbid if they ever want to marry or date outside their very restrictive social class.
(little fawn, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 0:28, 1 reply)

We have to remember though...
The old money vs new debate is a sweeping generalisation, of course not all old money families are delightful, but in my own personal experience the "brats" of these families are a lot nicer than those of the new money persuasion.

I had the fortune/misfortune of attending a very private private school, but on a scholarship *shock horror*, and I got bullied A LOT. Surprise surprise the bullies were those who thought it hilarious that I didn't have the latest gucci loafers that their investment banker daddies had bought them, and one of the people who stopped them from doing it and became one of my closest friends, his father owned half of Devon, and he was rather close mates with those two blokes known as Bill and Hazza. Old money in the proper sense of the word I guess, and actually rather lovely down to earthish (as much as is possible) people.
(Discombobulation, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 0:32, closed)