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Diamonds At Dinner - My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home. (Paperback)
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Diamonds At Dinner - My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home. (Paperback)
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Loot Price R397
Discovery Miles 3 970
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The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was
a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of
tiaras and a Coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda
had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain's
most noble families. In her fascinating memoir of life upstairs and
down, Hilda takes us back to a gilded era which would be brutally
swept away by the Second World War. Hers is a very personal story
of being transplanted from a tiny house with no bath or hot water
to an eighteenth-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by
parkland landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. But it is also
the remarkable story of the family whose service she entered - and
that of Croome Court itself: during World War Two, it housed the
Dutch Royal Family - who had fled the Nazi occupation - and it was
also home to the top-secret RAF base where radar was developed.
This is Hilda's story.
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