The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery
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Authors: Catherine Bailey
The Secret Rooms
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By the same author
Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty
For my mother
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. Belvoir Castle, looking east towards Woolsthorpe,
c
.1935
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. The Guard Room at Belvoir Castle
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. John, 9th Duke of Rutland, with his wife, Kathleen, and Roger, his youngest son, at King George VI’s coronation
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. Room 1, where John died in April 1940
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. The Elizabeth Saloon, one of the many state rooms at the Castle
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. The Guard Room, March 1940
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. The Muniment Rooms, as seen from the gun-carriage terrace
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. Violet Lindsay and Henry, Marquis of Granby (later 8th Duke and Duchess of Rutland), on their engagement in 1882
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. Violet and Haddon
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. Haddon, aged three at Cockayne Hall, Bedfordshire
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. John, aged four at Belvoir
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. Haddon
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. John
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. Haddon, aged nine. The photograph was taken shortly before his death
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. Haddon’s tomb
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. Violet on the terrace at Belvoir in 1895
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. and
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. John, photographed by Charlie Lindsay, shortly after Haddon’s death
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. John, aged thirteen, at Stanton Woodhouse, the family’s home in Derbyshire
20. A portrait of John by Sir James Shannon, painted in 1908
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. The seafront at Messina after the earthquake on 28 December 1908
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. Violet, Duchess of Rutland, by Sir James Shannon,
c
.1890
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. Henry, Duke of Rutland, and Charlie Lindsay,
c
.1920
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. Violet, Duchess of Rutland,
c
.1915
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. John in the summer of 1909
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. The War Office in 1914 (IWM Q42033)
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. General Sir Edward Bethune
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. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum
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. John in the courtyard at Arlington Street before leaving for the Front in February 1915
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. George Gordon Moore
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. Lady Diana Manners,
c
.1915
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. Field Marshal Sir John French with his ADC, Lt.-Col. Fitzgerald Watt, on the Western Front in June 1915.
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. Field Marshal Sir John French in his dress uniform
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. Walking wounded at Vermelles, during the later stages of the Battle of Loos
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. Officers of the 4th Leicestershire Regiment at Luton, October 1914
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. Goldfish Château, where John had tea with General Pulteney on 5 July 1915
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. Gassed soldiers at Casualty Clearing Station No. 8, Bailleul (IWM 114867)
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. General Edward Stuart Wortley
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. Rothesay Stuart Wortley
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. Marjorie, Marchioness of Anglesey, and her daughter Caroline, Belvoir Castle, 1915
41. John and Kakoo’s wedding at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, on 27 January 1916
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. Henry, Duke of Rutland, is toasted by his family after receiving the Order of the Garter from King George V
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. John and Kakoo
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. Henry and his daughter Diana
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. Kakoo and Charlie Lindsay, 1918
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. John at the christening of his second son, John
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. Haddon Hall
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. Haddon Hall by Rex Whistler
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. John’s sons at King George VI’s coronation
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. John poses with the local cricket team and his bulldog Belvoir, 1937
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. The funeral of Violet, Duchess of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, January 1938
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. The cortège arrives at the mausoleum in the grounds of the castle
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. David, the present and 11th Duke of Rutland
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. Emma, Duchess of Rutland
All the photographs are reproduced courtesy of His Grace, the Duke of Rutland with the following exceptions:
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,
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,
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, Konrad Gabriel;
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, Mrs Robin Ravilious;
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, Bridgeman Art Library;
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,
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, Imperial War Museum;
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,
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,
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, Library of Congress;
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, Getty Images;
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, Julian P. Graham / Loon Hill Studios;
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,
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, from Richard Holmes,
The Little Field Marshal
;
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from ‘The Long, Long Trail:
www.1914-1918.net
/;
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, from Robert Franklin,
The Fringes of History: The Life and Times of Edward Stuart Wortley
;
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, from Rothesay Stuart Wortley,
Letters from a Flying Officer
.
18–27 April 1940
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Two doctors were already at the castle; a third, Lord Dawson, Physician to King George VI, was expected. It was mid-morning on Thursday 18 April 1940 and they were gathered at the entrance to a suite of rooms. The door leading into them was made of polished steel; the colour of gunmetal, it was the type used to secure a walk-in safe.