article_snippet: The seventh and youngest child of an earl, directly descended from King James II, Waldegrave is Waldegrave the very definition of a toff.
article_snippet: And Waldegrave grew up privileged not just socially and materially but also intellectually.
article_snippet: Waldegrave parents’ friends included the philosopher Isaiah Berlin.
article_snippet: Waldegrave was educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard.
article_snippet: Waldegrave accent alone opened doors, as Waldegrave made Waldegrave way in the world in the Sixties.
article_snippet: As a scruffy, long-haired student, Waldegrave once tried to check in for the night at the Great Western Hotel at Paddington, admitting that Waldegrave had no money on Waldegrave but would pay once they sent Waldegrave the bill.
article_snippet: The cut-glass vowels, and Waldegrave explanation that there had once been a locomotive on the Great Western line named after Waldegrave family —
article_snippet: The Earl Waldegrave — secured Waldegrave the room.
article_snippet: For those of us who do not come from such lofty beginnings, there is something beguiling yet also appalling about the upper-class milieu Waldegrave describes so well.
article_snippet: From an early age, The Earl Waldegrave — ambition was to rise to high political office.
article_snippet: As Britain’s representative on the European Environment Council in 1984, Waldegrave had tried to force British Leyland into taking the dangers of pollution more seriously.
article_snippet: On the whole, Waldegrave wears Waldegrave social pedigree about as lightly as Waldegrave can, while exploiting he can to shed light, sometimes alarmingly, but also hilariously, on upper-crust ways.
article_snippet: While holidaying with the Rothschilds in Barbados, Waldegrave visited rich socialites
highlights_snippet: Waldegrave grew up privileged not just socially but intellectually .
  
highlights_snippet: From an early age, Waldegrave ambition was to rise to high political office .
  