Splendour and Squalor : The Disgrace and Disintegration of Three Aristocratic Dynasties by Scriven, Marcus

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Atlantic Books, 2011. Paperback. Good. From stately homes and prisons to the House of Lords and Edwardian asylums- the stories, spanning the 20th century, of the disintegrating fortunes of t hree of Britain's most illustrious aristocratic dynasties and the scapegrac es responsible Splendour & Squalor traces the disintegration of three aristocratic dynasties through the twentieth century: families who seemingly had everything yet decided to take 'the down-escalator of life.' They include the Montagus, Dukes of Manchester, who had once employed Vanburgh-creator of Blenheim Palace, Churchill's birthplace-to remodel their principal family seat, Kimbolton Castle; shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the Montagus oversaw further renovation-converting the Kimbolton chapel into a bar, and stocking it with glasses decorated with 'pornography of the most interesting kind,' for the benefit of guests like the restless, bisexual Duke of Kent, younger brother of George VI. Four consecutive generations of… Read More

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