Not so sure about the privileged entry to the armed services. There are plenty of places where the son of the president or whoever would go straight into the army as a colonel, rather than having, as Princes William & Harry did, to have to complete their country's equivalent of the entire 18 month training course at RMA Sandhurst before being commissioned as 2nd Lieutenants: and later, in William's case, another course at Cranwell before transferring to the RAF as a helicopter pilot in which role he saw action on board a Sea King search and rescue helicopter.

~M~