Talk:Dame (title)

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Could some one write the various forms of address to one who is a Dame? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.131.97.199 (talk • contribs) 20:24, 15 August 2006

There isn't much to say really. As with Sir, the title is attached to the forename, so Dame Judi Dench is referred to as Dame Judi and not "Dame Dench". Unlike wives of knights, however, the husband of a Dame doesn't get to use a title. Maybe a brief section on form of address could be added to the article. JRawle (Talk) 22:52, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some historic information would be nice

I came to Wikipedia to learn about the history (and list) of Dame honors. This article needs a lot of work. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.246.36.112 (talk) 18:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] I've been trying to work out the Lady/Dame thing and have not gotten far

I also have queries at the Wiki article on "Lady". Can you cite a warrant (preferably the first one) or document emanting from some authority such as a Monarch, a Duke of Norfolk, a King of Arms, a College of Arms, or court of competent jurisdiction, which makes it official that the wife of a knight (who for purposes of these examples has no other titles or honors) is a Lady and not a Dame? (Obviously in orders where female members are "Ladies" and not "Dames" the wives of male members will be "Ladies".) My concern here is that maybe it is not really granted, in law, that the wife of any knight without higher honors, in an order where female members are "Dames", is a "Lady" and not a "Dame", but, rather, that, like the alleged Nobel Prize in Economics and the belief that everyone who has a coat of arms can say that they have a crest, this is a case where a lie has been repeated so often that nobody can remember that it is false. 64.131.188.104 09:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson