 Many modern examples were identified in December 2003 when a confidential document containing the names of more than 300 such people was leaked to "The Sunday Times", but many more have become known since then.As a part of the House of Lords reform in 1999, members of the Royal Family who were peers of the first creation were offered life peerages as a pure formality, which would have given them the right to sit in the House of Lords, but nobody seriously expected them to accept, and all declined with the exception of the Earl of Snowdon.These included