イギリスの階級classはとてもきびしい

Royal wedding: No place for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8470465/Royal-wedding-No-place-for-Tony-Blair-and-Gordon-Brown.html

首相を歴任してもロイヤルウエディングに呼ばれないんですから。

Mr Blair and Mr Brown had not received invitations because neither were Knights of the Garter, unlike

Sir John and Lady Thatcher.

貴族じゃないと相手にされないのですね。