Why do you need status in the UK though, I'm not sure it's a requirement, probably more of an ego thing? I've been to garden parties at Buckingham Palace, balls

Why do you need status in the UK though, I'm not sure it's a requirement, probably more of an ego thing? I've been to garden parties at Buckingham Palace, balls at Oxford and Cambridge university, worked in investment banking, worked in academic research, come from a severely deprived working class area and terrible schooling, achieved in education and now live in a comfortable middle class area. I don't think status or class has been much of an issue, but I haven't really needed nepotism, I've tried to live off my own skills and achievements and just be nice to people around me.