An awful lot of class consciousness in this thread, what does it matter what one's antecedents are except for historic interest. I can see no more reason for parading one's humble background than boasting of blue blood and aristocratic connections.
Similarly I found the coarse and ugly jokes about Mrs Middleton offensive (not ones made here, but in the public arena but referred to here). She and her husband are a successful business couple whose daughter met and married someone she met at university. Perfectly normal, lots of us have done that. Why do they constantly have to have silly social comparisons made just because their SiL is a prince?. They have made their own lives, judge them on that.
Old sayings with a theme 2 ( continuing *nanna8*'s thread)
Last weekend, in Rutland, the first statue in Britain of the late Elizabeth II was unveiled.