What does it mean to be an aristocrat nowadays?

The baron and baroness of Fuerstenberg – Cornelia and Nikolaus – at their portrait venture during the annual Auer Dult market in southern Germany. — dpa

When her name is called in a waiting room – at the doctor’s, for example – the Baroness von Fuerstenberg says she gets “the feeling they’re expecting something”.

Heads turn, only to see a young women in jeans stand up. “They’re expecting something else, ” says her husband, Nikolaus, with a grin.