The Secret Rooms
A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret
by Catherine Bailey
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Pub Date Dec 31 2013 | Archive Date Feb 28 2014
PENGUIN GROUP Penguin | Penguin Books
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.
Advance Praise
“A remarkable piece of research which throws a bright shaft of light on powerful people, hypocrisy and the First World War.”
--The Guardian
“Gripping. Reads like the best kind of mystery story. It is a tale of mistresses and heirlooms, cowardice and connivance.”
--The Sunday Times (London)
“Populated with a bevy of real-life aristos who played by their own twisted and
privileged set of rules, a searing portrait of family intrigue, dysfunction, and hubris—à la Downton
Abbey—emerges.”
--Booklist
“Bailey deserves commendation for her meticulous research as well as her storytelling.”
--Publishers Weekly
“A compelling exposé on the once-almighty laws of ducal inheritance.”
--Kirkus Reviews
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| ISBN | 9780143124733 |
| PRICE | $24.00 (USD) |
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