Possible Clues:

• British V.I.P.'s, to Brits
• Blue bloods, informally
• Posh folk taken from Paris to Sicily
• Peers having come up briefly returned drunk
• British bluebloods, informally
• Comes up having to move in for start of election counts, maybe
• Drunk and knight are upstanding toffs
• Skill of abnormal proportions, getting around one's peers
• Noblemen like containing awful riots