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Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty

Catherine Bailey

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 519

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin

Release: March 06, 2008

ISBN: 0141019239

ISBN 13: 9780141019239

Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty

Catherine Bailey

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 519

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin

Release: March 06, 2008

ISBN: 0141019239

ISBN 13: 9780141019239

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