Tim Tate

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Diamonds at Dinner - My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately HomePaperback, 2 September 2013

Diamonds at Dinner - My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home
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Print Length
272 pages
Language
English
Publisher
John Blake
Date Published
2 Sep 2013
ISBN-10
1782196102
ISBN-13
9781782196105

Description

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.

Product Details

Authors:
Tim TateHilda Newman
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
2 September 2013
Dimensions:
19.68 x 13.36 x 1.93 cm
Genre:
Feminine
ISBN-10:
1782196102
ISBN-13:
9781782196105
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Weight:
195.04 gm

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