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The Secret Rooms - A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death (Paperback)
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The Secret Rooms - A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death (Paperback)
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List price R339
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A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious
death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am 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, in Leicestershire. For weeks, as his health
deteriorated, his family, his servants - even the King's doctor -
pleaded with him to come out, but he 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? For the
first time, in The Secret Rooms, Catherine Bailey 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. At its core is a secret so dark that it consumed the life of
the man who fought to his death to keep it hidden. This
extraordinary mystery from the author of Black Diamonds, perfect
for lovers of Downton Abbey, Brideshead Revisited and The
Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Praise for The Secret Rooms: 'Reads like
the best kind of mystery story. It is a tale of mistresses and
heirlooms, cowardice and connivance, and a deeply dysfunctional
family...gripping' Sunday Times 'Astonishing...jaw-dropping...It
would spoil the book if I revealed the whole works, suffice it to
say...what a family' Sunday Telegraph 'An extraordinary detective
operation' John Julius Norwich
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