I have tried looking for families closely related to the Royal Family as I noticed that articles of other titles are often linked from a title. I went to the BROOKSBANK baronets, where of course Jack's marriage to HRH Princess Eugenie is recorded, but ROYAL FAMILY is not a link (similar for the ASHCOMBE barons). I finally got lucky with the SPENCER earls which lists under SISTER DECEASED the late Princess of Wales, formerly Lady Diana Spencer. Here ROYAL FAMILY is a link, but merely goes to a generic page on the Debrett's website, not something we would expect in the former print editions.
When I look at previous print editions of Debrett's, the Royal Family are not included in the Peerage section, but rather are part of the first 100 or so pages that cover various things. Hopefully this is something Debrett's will add in due course.
Looking through the database it is not as up-to-date as some of the information posted here. Whilst I accept that some of my postings based on what I have found on social media should not necessarily be taken as definitive (though I tend to only post when I am relatively certain), some of our finds from the GRO are not reflected and several people who we can prove are deceased are still shown as living, e.g. Aileen CONSTANT (nee WILSON, of the WILSON baronets [1906]) is shown as living despite clear evidence that she died in 1995, and Jacqueline HOPE (of the LINLITHGOW marquesses) is shown living despite dying in 2015. I initially wondered if Debrett's simply don't monitor our messages (surely not!!), but then they do seem to have kept up with some births/deaths that we uncovered. Maybe I should apply for a job with them!
Other things I have noticed: extinct titles that would be listed in print editions as they had close family of previous holders still living cannot be found in the search, but sometimes you can find your way in another route (e.g. you cannot search for Earl of AVON, but if you go to Duke of MARLBOROUGH, you can find a link to the extinct title via Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, later Countess of AVON.) Some dormant titles are listed in the search (e.g. POWER [1836] baronets), but not others (WYVILL baronets)
After finding the AVON page I realised that the way the page URLs work allow you to access pages that don't come up in the search.
e.g. I cannot search for WYVILL baronets successfully, however, I know from my copy of DB 2008 that YARROW comes after it, so I searched for the Yarrow baronets, which goes to the correct page. Whilst the URLs are customarily long, e.g.
in actual fact nothing after the first ? matters and:
does just fine.
I think their system is that Yarrow is the 3033rd family listed. So I changed this to
https://www.debretts1769.com/f/3032 and indeed it did take me to the dormant WYVILL baronets, giving me an updated set of collaterals. Hopefully they can fix their search.
Quite pleased that many baronetical families now have a complete list of Predecessors which had not been present in previous print editions.