The accidental duchess : from farmer's daughter to Belvoir Castle
Rutland, Emma, Duchess of2022
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Never in her wildest dreams did Emma Watkins, a Welsh farmer's daughter, imagine she would marry into the aristocracy but then she fell in love with David Manners, heir to the duchy of Rutland. When David inherited the dukedom, Emma became chatelaine of Belvoir Castle, with its illustrious history, 225 rooms (one full of chamber pots) and some particularly unfriendly ghosts. She also had to cope with five young children, an estate in need of modernisation and staff who didn't want change. Life in a castle isn't always a fairytale, as the Duchess reveals in her charming, funny and eye-opening autobiography.
Main title:
The accidental duchess : from farmer's daughter to Belvoir Castle / Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland.
Author:
Rutland, Emma, Duchess of, author
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2022.
Collation:
304 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781035002078 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.085092B.RUT
Local class:
B RUT
Language:
English
BRN:
3306593