The secret rooms :
by Bailey, Catherine
Published by : Penguin Books (New York) Physical details: xv, 465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm ISBN:9780143124733 (pbk.); 0143124730 (pbk.). ISSN:978014312| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | 941.082092 Bai (Browse shelf) | Available | 102266 |
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Includes index
Belvoir Estate 1914 map -- Belvoir Castle layouts -- Manners family tree -- Part I: 18-27 April 1940 -- Part II -- Part III -- Part IV -- Part V -- Part VI -- Part VII -- Part VIII -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
" For fans of Downton Abbey: the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI. After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants' quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian given access. What she discovered was a mystery: the Duke had painstakingly erased three periods of his life from all family records-but why? As Bailey uncovers the answers, she also provides an intimate portrait of the very top of British society in the turbulent days leading up to World War I"--
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