02169cam a2200349 i 4500 1164244858 TxAuBib 20140108120000.0 131031s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013033308 9780143124733 paperback $16.00 0143124730 paperback $16.00 (OCoLC)862041419 DLC eng rda DLC IEP BKL TxAuBib rda Bailey, Catherine, 1960- The secret rooms : a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret / Catherine Bailey. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2013. xv, 465 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20140108. Rutland, John Henry Montagu Manners Duke of 1886-1940. Rutland, John Henry Montagu Manners Duke of 1886-1940. Family. Belvoir Castle (England) History 20th century. Great Britain Army Officers Biography. Nobility Great Britain Biography. World War, 1914-1918 Great Britain Biography. TXKIP