Black Diamonds: The Downfall Of An Aristocratic Dynasty And The Fifty Years That Changed England-used

Black Diamonds: The Downfall Of An Aristocratic Dynasty And The Fifty Years That Changed England-used

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From The New York Timesbestselling Author Of The Secret Rooms, The Extraordinary True Story Of The Downfall Of One Of Englands Wealthiest Familiesfans Of Downton Abbey Now Have A Goto Resource For Fascinating, Reallife 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 Pageturning Chronicle Of The Fitzwilliam Coalmining 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 Twentiethcentury England, Valued At More Than 3 Billion Of Todays Moneya 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 Illfated 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.

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