Name: Black Diamonds

Full name: Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty

Author: Catherine Bailey
Year: 2007
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History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Historical fiction

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9780141019239
0141019239
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.
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