Now I've done it...

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I ticked off a woman because I teasingly called her a 'newbie' in a letter to her referring to her new position in a staff set and have recieved a severe set-down wherein she informed me that she is a Peer in her own right, a Court Baroness, a long-term veteran of Pennsic and a Deputy Kingdom Officer.

I, of course, apologised at once.