Horses are good company -- The Witcher

Ack, I meant to comment on this earlier. Honestly, whenever I hear someone use the term "illegitimate child" I think of Masterpiece Theater lords cavorting with parlor maids and then said parlor maids standing big-bellied and laden down with a carpetbag out by the road, waiting for a passing coach. It's such a crusty old term, with titles and royalty and shit like that. But also, you could say that politicians (and celebrities/bigwigs in other arenas, of course) are the American royalty or the American lords/ladies.