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The Downton Era - Great Houses, Churchills, and Mitfords (Paperback)
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The Downton Era - Great Houses, Churchills, and Mitfords (Paperback)
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Loot Price R410
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Who was the most beautiful woman in England in the twentieth
century - and why did she become the most hated woman? Who spent
GBP500,000 to remodel her house for a king's weekend visit? What
country house has a roof that is seven acres in size? What prime
minister's mother had at least twenty lovers? How many million
individuals were killed in World War 1? The answers to such
startling questions show that history is an unnerving mixture of
breathtaking moments and punishing reversals. Written as a rattling
good read, The Downton Era takes the reader on a journey through
twentieth century England by pointing out the personal landmarks
that make up history. When we see elegant country houses, we
discover that such great piles of rock record the aristocratic arc
of the English upper class from its Victorian heyday onward into
the twentieth century. Titles and dances and hunts were social
events that linked families and forged governments. By exploring
the interwoven family chronicles of the Churchills and their
cousins, the Mitfords, we see history at a personalized level. In
their lives are woven together stories of great houses, the lure
and weight of title, the range and challenge of political
influence, and the privileged entrapments that undermined their
dazzling social world. As with tragedy, the scale of greatness and
disintegration in these families and their class makes for riveting
reading.
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