The secret rooms
Subtitle: a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret
By: Catherine Bailey
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780143124733
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Great Britain; Great Britain. Army; Nobility; Family; Belvoir Castle (England); Officers; Biography; History
Description: 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 records-but 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"--
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Viking ... 2013"--Title-page verso.

Includes index.

Various printings.