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Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty

Catherine Bailey

3.95/5 (1943 ratings)

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House of privilege, riches and secrets...

Wentworth is today a crumbling and forgotten palace in Yorkshire. Yet just a hundred years ago is was the ancestral pile of the Fitzwilliams - an aristocratic clan whose home and life were fuelled by coal mining.

Black Diamonds tells of the Fitzwilliams' spectacular decline: of inheritance fights; rumours of a changeling and of lunacy; philandering earls; illicit love; war heroism; a tragic connection to the Kennedys; violent death; mining poverty and squalor; and a class war that literally ripped apart the local landscape.

The demise of Wentworth and the Fitzwilliams is a riveting account of aristocratic decline and fall, set in the grandest house in England.

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Pages:: 519 pages

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Edition:: 0, Reprint

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0141019239

ISBN13:: 9780141019239

kindle Asin:: B002RI92A2

Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty

Catherine Bailey

3.95/5 (1943 ratings)

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House of privilege, riches and secrets...

Wentworth is today a crumbling and forgotten palace in Yorkshire. Yet just a hundred years ago is was the ancestral pile of the Fitzwilliams - an aristocratic clan whose home and life were fuelled by coal mining.

Black Diamonds tells of the Fitzwilliams' spectacular decline: of inheritance fights; rumours of a changeling and of lunacy; philandering earls; illicit love; war heroism; a tragic connection to the Kennedys; violent death; mining poverty and squalor; and a class war that literally ripped apart the local landscape.

The demise of Wentworth and the Fitzwilliams is a riveting account of aristocratic decline and fall, set in the grandest house in England.

Format:

Pages:: 519 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 0, Reprint

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0141019239

ISBN13:: 9780141019239

kindle Asin:: B002RI92A2

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