As Mr. Eberstadt recalled in Medium, when Princess Margaret shocked the British establishment by marrying a commoner, the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960, Ferdinand Eberstadt said, “That brings your social position above that of a bootblack.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/obituaries/frederick-eberstadt-dead.html

Now, he was returning to the team and to a country that seemed burdened with a worrying question: So used to being King Kohli, will Virat adjust to the life of a commoner?

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket-world-cup/virat-kohli-rohit-sharma-how-the-captain-the-king-aligned-to-conquer-the-world-9031692/

The festival offers a day filled with medieval fun, pagan revelry, and a chance to embrace one's inner Viking, witch or wizard, damsel or knight, or for the more egalitarian, a commoner.

Source: https://www.blayneychronicle.com.au/story/8238617/embrace-your-inner-viking-at-the-newbridge-winter-solstice-festival/?src=rss

The possibility of Bertil himself becoming King of Sweden was suddenly very real - and he was told that marrying someone who was both a commoner and a divorcee would result in him waiving his right to the throne.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11871463/Princess-Lilian-Sweden-coal-miners-daughter-terraced-house-Swansea-royal.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490