Author Name
Bailey, Catherine.
Title THE SECRET ROOMS: A TRUE GOTHIC MYSTERY.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Near Fine
Jacket Condition Very Good+
Publisher London Viking 2012
ISBN Number
0670917559 / 9780670917556
Seller ID 29018
466 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, floor plans, map, family tree. "At 6 a.m. on 21 April 1940 John, the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank, cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home, Belvoir Castle. For weeks, as his health deteriorated, his family, his servants - even the King's doctor - had pleaded with him to come out, but he had refused. After his death, his son and heir, Charles, the 10th Duke of Rutland, ordered that the rooms be locked up and they remained untouched for sixty years. What lay behind this extraordinary set of circumstances? (The author) unravels a complex and compelling tale of love, honour and betrayal, played out in the grand salons of Britain's stately homes at the turn of the twentieth century, and on the battlefields of the Western Front." Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, minor rubbing on rear panel.
Marjorie
Manners,
Marchioness
Anglesey,
Lady
Cynthia
Asquith,
Herbert
Henry
Asquith,
Aubers
Ridge,
Colonel
Beevor,
Belvoir
Castle,
Leicesterhsire,
Winifred
Bennett,
Edward
Bethune,
British
Expeditionary
Force,
Ciphers,
Codes,
Cockayne
Hatley
Hall,
Lady
Diana
Cooper,
Field
Marshal
Sir
John
French,
Francis
Wallace
Grenfell,
Robert
Charles
John
Manners,
Lord
Haddon,
Sir
Ian
Hamilton,
Dr
Donald
Hood,
Horatio
Kitchener,
Leicestershire
Regiment,
Tigers,
Hilda
Lezard,
Charles
Lindsay,
Loos,
Manners
Family,
George
Gordon
Moore,
Neuve
Chappelle,
First
World
War,
North
Midland
Division,
Ouderdom,
Rutland,
Dukes,
Duchesses,
Aristocracy,
Privilege,
Connections,
Kathleen
Rutland,
Kakoo,
Servants,
Stately
Homes,
Castles,
St
Eloi,
Sanctuary
Wood,
George
Waudby,
Edward
Stuart
Wortley,
Rothesay
Stuart
Wortley,
Ypres,
Hill
60,
British
Upper
Classes.
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