Lady Fiona

Lookaround presenter and former ITN newsreader is to become Lady Fiona McGregor when she marries a clan chief in May.

I wonder if she will retain her name Fiona Armstrong, from her first marriage, for her career.

http://www.border-tv.com/news.php?region=Border&content=17420

I think Moira Stuart, shoud be given the title 'Lady' considering that she's been a Newsreader for about 20 years and she's very good at it. Who agrees?

what are you on! im irish and i know this, that you dont get "Lady" or anything like that, unless you are either something to the royal family or in this case a clan chief.

there also has been many other news readers who have gone by.

look at (IN the US), Barbera Walters and Jane Pauley, they were signifgant figures like Moria is (particualry Barbera) who is a face for both woman and black people.

the only honours off the top of my head is: OBE, CBE MBC or a Damehood.

Can't you buy titles like Lord and Lady also, not quite the same thing as gaining it through marrage or inheriting it obviously.

It's getting quite tiring to read all your posts about how *wonderful* Moira Stuart, Natasha Kaplinsky, Fiona Bruce and any other female newsreader you may be obsessed with are. As has been pointed out to you many times before, when you post this it rarely relates to the topic. Why don't you go and create your own 'I Love Moira Stuart etc' forum and stop posting it here?

I bet you were gutted when you realised this thread wasn't about Fiona Bruce

No, not really. Even though I think Fiona is very good, I don't think she's been around long enough to gain the title 'Lady', but like I said, Moira deserves it.

my god it is like explaining something to a mule!

you dont earn the title of lady, you have to inherit it. you dont get an honour from the Queen for the amount of years you have worked. David Beckham, Johnny Wilkinson all havent been around too long, but they got them. It has NOTHING to do with time

Erm - you don't have to inherit a title. Peerages are often bestowed on people who have given many years of distinguished service in a particular field.

Sorry, I forgot that a woman has to inherit the title 'Lady' . In that case, Moira deserves the title 'Dame' because she's the best Newsreader ever.

Of course women don't have to inherit the title 'Lady'.

Women can be made life peers in the same way as men.

A woman can also use the title Lady if she is wife of a knight or baronet.

(You also get courtesy titles for daughters of certain members of the nobility, but I don't fully understand all that)

Fiona Armstrong's future husband is a baronet.

Being strictly accurate Armstrong is her maiden name.