Outrageous fortune
Subtitle: growing up at Leeds Castle
By: Anthony Russell
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781250006011
Subjects: Social life and customs; Leeds Castle (England); Childhood and youth; Nobility; History
Description: A composer and descendant of aristocrats traces his 1950s childhood at opulent Leeds Castle, describing the strict rules of conduct that governed everyday life and the changes invoked by the cultural revolutions of the 1960s.
Table of contents: title: A view from the pram; title: The castle way; title: Son of sponge; title: The launching of the ducks; title: Hill House days; title: On vacation; title: Christmas and Crockett; title: Conversation piece; title: Paradise Island; title: Boarding school; title: Record roundabout; title: A castle way letter; title: The maiden's tower; title: Terror at the gallop; title: French connection; title: Beatlemaniac; title: Stowe versus home front; title: Do what?; title: Heaven and hell; title: The unwary beneficiary; title: The man at the gate.