Bailey Catherine Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England 9780143126843

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Автор: Bailey Catherine
Название: Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England
Перевод названия: Катерина Бейли: Черные алмазы. Падение аристократов и 50 лет, которые изменили Англию
ISBN: 9780143126843
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0143126849
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 544
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 30.12.2014
Язык: English
Размер: 211 x 137 x 31
Поставляется из: США
Описание: From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of Englands wealthiest families

Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by Englands aristocrats. With the novelistic flair and knack for historical detail Catherine Bailey displayed in her New York Times bestseller The Secret Rooms, Black Diamonds provides a page-turning chronicle of the Fitzwilliam coal-mining dynasty and their breathtaking Wentworth estate, the largest private home in England.

When the sixth Earl Fitzwilliam died in 1902, he left behind the second largest estate in twentieth-century England, valued at more than 3 billion of todays money--a lifeline to the tens of thousands of people who worked either in the familys coal mines or on their expansive estate. The earl also left behind four sons, and the family line seemed assured. But was it? As Bailey retraces the Fitzwilliam family history, she uncovers a legacy riddled with bitter feuds, scandals (including Peter Fitzwilliams ill-fated affair with American heiress Kick Kennedy), and civil unrest as the conflict between the coal industry and its miners came to a head. Once again, Bailey has written an irresistible and brilliant narrative history.

Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England, Bailey Catherine