Jean Broke-Smith
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Jean Broke-Smith is an etiquette and grooming expert. She was the principal of the Lucie Clayton school of grooming and modeling for thirty years, during which time she supervised a curriculum that included etiquette and deportment. Graduates of the school include the actress Joanna Lumley. Prior to that she trained as fashion designer, milliner and make-up specialist.
In recent years Broke-Smith has gained notice from appearing in a series of TV programmes on the subject of manners. She was 'head-teacher' in Ladette to Lady (ITV), a reality-television programme that emulated the curriculum of a finishing school; she was the etiquette expert on The Family, another reality-television show in which a large extended family were sent to live in a large mansion house with a full domestic staff; she was a judge on Australian Princess (Channel 10), a spin-off of an NBC show American Princess, which purported to teach young women how to conduct themselves like princesses and make them fit to marry a prince. She appeared on Faking It, teaching a girl from the north of England to present herself as a society 'lady'; in Snobs; and as an etiquette expert on Britain's Next Top Model.
