The Resource The secret rooms : a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret, Catherine Bailey
The secret rooms : a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret, Catherine Bailey
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- 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 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 465 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9780143124733
- Label
- The secret rooms : a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret
- Title
- The secret rooms
- Title remainder
- a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret
- Statement of responsibility
- Catherine Bailey
- Subject
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- Great Britain, Army -- Officers -- Biography
- Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Rutland, John Henry Montagu Manners, Duke of, 1886-1940
- Belvoir Castle (England) -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Rutland, John Henry Montagu Manners, Duke of, 1886-1940 -- Family
- Language
- eng
- 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 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bailey, Catherine
- Dewey number
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- 941.082092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DA574.R87
- LC item number
- B35 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Rutland, John Henry Montagu Manners
- Rutland, John Henry Montagu Manners
- Belvoir Castle (England)
- Great Britain
- Nobility
- World War, 1914-1918
- Label
- The secret rooms : a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret, Catherine Bailey
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xv, 465 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143124733
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013033308
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn862041419
- Label
- The secret rooms : a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret, Catherine Bailey
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xv, 465 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143124733
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013033308
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn862041419
Subject
- Great Britain, Army -- Officers -- Biography
- Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Rutland, John Henry Montagu Manners, Duke of, 1886-1940
- Belvoir Castle (England) -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Rutland, John Henry Montagu Manners, Duke of, 1886-1940 -- Family
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