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The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret Paperback - 2013
by Catherine Bailey
Summary
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 recordsbut 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.
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 recordsbut 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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- Title The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret
- Author Catherine Bailey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Ed
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2013-12-31
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780143124733 / 0143124730
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 6.65 x 1.15 in (21.34 x 16.89 x 2.92 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: British
- Topical: Library Reads
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Officers, Nobility - Great Britain
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013033308
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Booklist, 12/01/2013, Page 11
- BookPage, 01/01/2014, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2013, Page 0
- New York Times Book Review, 01/05/2014, Page 13
- Publishers Weekly, 09/30/2013, Page 0
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