I think these tales make us feel human
especially when we are being lectured by our master and superiors who know far better than us, on how to behave and how they want to spend our money
Lord Derry Irvine's son - the last Lord Chancellor wasnt exactly acting to type when he went around to someone and threatened them with a gun in The Land of the Free. Daddy managed to keep this out of the papers whilst he was redecorating the Lord Chancellors Apartments at a a cost to the tax payer of £500 000
well he didnt exactly
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1436489/Irvines-stalker-son-ordered-to-pay-770000.html
The Mitford Sisters' mother - Lady Redesdale 1930s complained that whenever she read a headline - "Peer's Daughters ..." she knew it would be about one or other of the flighty four
and in Evelyn Waugh's Vile bodies ( 1926 ) Mary Mouse takes her frenz back to Daddys house to go on partying early one morning and that is why the Bright Young Things are photographed leaving No 10.
Trollopes The Dukes Children - the Duke of Omnium;s boys are suitably badly behaved - the eldest ( Anthony Andrews ) loses £10k on a horse and Giles is sent down