¡Ay, Mami! ¡Mira, mi telenovela preferida!

From an AP article : SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Retired grocery clerk Bill Capell has a good reason to plan his first trip to England: He's one step away from being an earl. A relative who died last month was the 10th Earl of Essex, and the 11th, another cousin, is 61 years old and doesn't have children to inherit the title.

Capell, a 52-year-old, born-and-bred Californian, was largely unimpressed by the news that he might become a nobleman...

...As the Right Honorable Lord William Capell, Capell would be entitled to put his name forward as a candidate, should one of the 95 hereditary members of the House of Lords die. He says Queen Elizabeth II would formally address him as "Our right trusty and entirely beloved cousin."...

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It's much like a telenovela.

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Answers.com: Telenovelas have a different type of stories than english-language soap operas. A popular plot is about a poor beautiful woman who meets a rich an handsome guy. They fall in love and he breaks with his rich, evil and frivolous girlfriend to be with her, but the girlfriend (usually accompanied by the rich guy's mother or other close relative) stands in their way to happiness. Sometimes the struggle is ethnic (such as in Gitanas and Yesenia with gypsies or in Maria Isabel with natives). A popular pivotal point is also used when it is discovered who the real father/mother of one of the main characters is.

However, there are stories in telenovelas that would never be shown on soap operas such as people with supernatural powers ("El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar") or who have been cloned ("O Clone") as well as women who have raised over poverty and slavery through prostitution ("Xica da Silva").