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

Subject(s): Rutland, John Henry Montagu Manners, -- 1886-1940 -- Family. | Belvoir Castle (England) -- History -- 20th century. | Great Britain. -- Army -- Officers | Nobility -- Great Britain | World War -- Great Britain -- 1914-1918 | History / Europe / Great Britain.

Year: 2012

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Item type	Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
900 - 999		941.082092 Bai (Browse shelf)	Available		102266

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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The secret rooms :

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