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The Secret Rooms A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret

By Catherine Bailey

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2013
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6224181 bytes)
Pages
\528
Time added
2016-09-28 23:53:54

Description

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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