The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

by Catherine Bailey | History | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0670917559 Global Overview for this book
Registered by cally-c of Alfreton, Derbyshire United Kingdom on 3/30/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by cally-c from Alfreton, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Thursday, March 30, 2017
At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home, Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire.

For weeks, as his health deteriorated, his family, his servants - even the King's doctor - pleaded with him to come out, but he refused.

After his death, his son and heir, Charles, the 10th Duke of Rutland, ordered that the rooms be locked up and they remained untouched for sixty years.

What lay behind this extraordinary set of circumstances?

For the first time, in The Secret Rooms, Catherine Bailey unravels a complex and compelling tale of love, honour and betrayal, played out in the grand salons of Britain's stately homes at the turn of the twentieth century, and on the battlefields of the Western Front. At its core is a secret so dark that it consumed the life of the man who fought to his death to keep it hidden.

Journal Entry 2 by cally-c at Sainsbury's Coffee Shop in Chesterfield, Derbyshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (4/25/2017 UTC) at Sainsbury's Coffee Shop in Chesterfield, Derbyshire United Kingdom

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