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DIAMONDS AT DINNER - MY LIFE AS A LADY?S MAID IN A 1930S STA IBD

HILDA NEWMAN / TIM TATE
JOHN BLAKE
09 / 2013
9781782196105
Inglés

Sinopsis

The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour, of lavish balls and evening gowns, of tiaras and a Coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain?s most noble families. In her fascinating memoir of life upstairs and down, Hilda takes us back to a gilded era which would be brutally swept away by the Second World War. Hers is a very personal story of being transplanted from a tiny house with no bath or hot water to an eighteenth-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by parkland landscaped by Lancelot ?Capability? Brown. But it is also the remarkable story of the family whose service she entered - and that of Croome Court itself: during World War Two, it housed the Dutch Royal Family - who had fled the Nazi occupation - and it was also home to the top-secret RAF base where radar was developed. This is Hilda?s story.