Curious about what your noble epithet would be in the Regency world of Bridgerton? A new TikTok trend might just help answer that question. Here’s how to discover your Bridgerton name and alter ego, according to TikTok.
Royalty and nobility and gentry, viscounts and marquesses, lords and lordlings, the world of archaic English high society is replete with elaborate titles and designations that in some cases, borders on excessive. A good example of this can be found in the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, with its bevy of blue-blooded young upstarts.
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How to find your Bridgerton name and alter ego, according to TikTok
To begin with, let’s first discuss the subject of peerage, from which all these many titles are bestowed with. As Encyclopedia Britannica explains it, English nobility is separated into five body of peers, and are either hereditary birthrights handed through generations or bestowed by the British monarch. The peerage system starts with barons, followed by viscounts, earls, marquesses, and finally, dukes at the very top.
Contrary to wider belief outside of the United Kingdom, those who have received knighthoods or damehoods, as well as those bestowed with non-hereditary awards or honours, are not considered part of the peerage system. Of course, a whole set of guiding principals and rules exist in correlation with these titles but this is what you need to understand with regards to English nobility in a nutshell.
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With that said, when dabbling into the fantastical and fictitious, we can all afford to take some generous creative liberties. Suspending all disbelief, what would we christen ourselves should we be granted the privilege of being born with a proverbial silver spoon during the height of the Regency era? What sort of a Lord or Lady would you be, and which circles would you move around in London?
Well, wonder no more, as a new TikTok trend is here to help answer that question with a relatively simple formula that takes no more than five minutes to put together. Here’s what you’ll need to do:
- Pick between the titles of Lord or Lady; these are generic honorifics used to refer to nobles in polite settings
- Followed by your middle name (or in the case of those of us without middle names, your first name)
- Then include the last drink you had, but be sure to add ‘ton’ at the end. For example, if you had tea, then this would be ‘Teaton’.
- After this point, add ‘of’, before combining the first-half of your street name with ‘shire’ at the end.
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For added effect, you could even use Netflix’s official A.I filter for Bridgerton to complete the experience by generating your own Regency-era portrait. Here is how the Lifestyle Asia Kuala Lumpur team would look like, fresh off Aubrey Hall.
Hailing from a long lineage of distinguished members in England nobility, editor-in-chief Lord Martin Ristrettoton of Wangsashire needs little introduction among high society.
As for senior editor Lord Benjamin Latteton of Eastshire, he is often best known for his compulsive consumption of coffee and capricious temper.
On the other hand, beauty writer Lord Mallie Waterton of Kiarashire has been known to woo hearts with his calm, if not somewhat aloof demeanour.
Senior features writer Lady Yasmin Coffeeton of Jelutongshire is easily the belle of the ball after her most recent debut at Blenheim Palace.
Senior lifestyle writer Lord Ronn Latteton of Desashire, a distant cousin of Lord Benjamin Latteton of Eastshire, has most notably amassed a considerable fortune for himself through successful ventures in trade with greater Asia.
Lastly, there is no forgetting senior entertainment writer Lady Melissa Soupton of Valleyshire, whose beguiling literary works inspired two new plays that are set to be staged at the Theater Royale in Covent Garden.
Now it’s your turn.
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Armed with an Advertising major from Lancaster University, Benjamin is a senior editor who has spent his time oscillating between the social media and digital media landscape since 2018. With a keen interest in haute fashion and gastronomy, he has written for publications such as ERROR Digital, WORLD OF BUZZ, and KL Foodie. Beyond the keyboard, you can find him arms-deep in a thrift pile.
