Ambassadress, Mrs

Ambassadress, Mrs
   This is used to address the wife of the British ambassador to France in Don’t Tell Alfred, by Nancy Mitford. The speaker is American. He also extends the expression on occasion to ‘Mrs Ambassadress, ma’am’. The lady concerned should of course be addressed as ‘Mrs’ or ‘Lady’ (as appropriate) + last name, but some speakers do have a tendency to combine a social title with a professional one when addressing the wife of a professional man. She becomes ‘Mrs Doctor’, ‘Mrs Vicar’, etc. In some languages this would be a correct form of address.

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