Looking Back: She's all fur coat and no knickers!

It is said that to have class you should be well spoken with good grammar, have good manners, style, well read and treat everyone as you would wish to be treated.

Rudyard Kipling said 'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue. Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch'

When asked who they consider to have class, the names of Jacqueline Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn are mentioned as being the epitome of class. Although sometimes confused with style.

Class doesn't mean that you are either rich or royal. Donald Trump is rich with no class and Princess Margaret had no class due to her hedonistic lifestyle and dubious friends.

It is expected that people from privileged backgrounds should be classy but that is often far from the truth.

Public schools have often bred the worst type of 'Hooray Henrys', whose loud mouthed arrogance and air of superiority whilst flaunting their moneyed public school upbringing, have led to condemnation by the press.

The term was used by writer Damon Runyon in his book 'Tight Shoes' in 1936 and used to refer to the upper class fans of jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttleton who, when watching him perform in London clubs would shout 'Hooray!'

The children of rich pop stars often think it gives them entitlement to be pampered, arrogant and decadent.

Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave who is worth an estimated 78 million, was convicted of swinging from the Cenotaph in London whilst on a protest march, whilst Otis Ferry, son of Brian was found guilty of assault on two anti- hunt protesters. However, having a father who had to apologise after praising Nazis in a German newspaper, was hardly a role model.

My mother was sometimes heard to say disparaging 'She's got no class - all fur coat and no knickers!'

If you'd asked her what her definition of class was she would say that it was a lady who always wore a hat and gloves, even to the shops!