[antir-heralds] [STEPS] title of Dame

[Nancy Carr Zupanic]

Arnora Pot-Stirrer <G> wrote:
>> Now, since it came up and not to stir the pot or anything, but does
>> the ability to use it as an alternate title necessarily make it
>> reserved?

Ursula replied:
> Yes.

Which brings up an interesting matter.  Don and Dona are listed, and 
therefore reserved, equivelents to Lord and Lady for Spanish personas. 
White Scarf being a Grant of Arms, they are of course entitled to use these 
titles.  However, so is someone with an AoA or a Grant who wishes to use Don 
or Dona as an alternate title, but this gets some White Scarves a bit 
tecchy.  A lady I had once corresponded with, who used the title Dona, had 
been on the recieving end of such tecchiness, but stubbornly held to her 
right to use Dona.

Does anyone know how this happened?  That the Order of the White Scarf was 
given this "right" to these alternate titles to the point that some have 
been unkind to others who have used them?

Doireann