The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

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CATHERINE BAILEY
The Secret Rooms

VIKING
an imprint of
PENGUIN BOOKS

Contents

List of Illustrations

PART I: 18–27 April 1940

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

PART II

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

PART III

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

PART IV

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

PART V

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

PART VI

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

PART VII

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

PART VIII

Chapter 60

Epilogue

Illustrations

Appendix

Notes

Acknowledgements

By the same author

Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty

For my mother

List of Illustrations

  1
. Belvoir Castle, looking east towards Woolsthorpe,
c
.1935

  2
. The Guard Room at Belvoir Castle

  3
. John, 9th Duke of Rutland, with his wife, Kathleen, and Roger, his youngest son, at King George VI’s coronation

  4
. Room 1, where John died in April 1940

  5
. The Elizabeth Saloon, one of the many state rooms at the Castle

  6
. The Guard Room, March 1940

  7
. The Muniment Rooms, as seen from the gun-carriage terrace

  8
. Violet Lindsay and Henry, Marquis of Granby (later 8th Duke and Duchess of Rutland), on their engagement in 1882

  9
. Violet and Haddon

10
. Haddon, aged three at Cockayne Hall, Bedfordshire

11
. John, aged four at Belvoir

12
. Haddon

13
. John

14
. Haddon, aged nine. The photograph was taken shortly before his death

15
. Haddon’s tomb

16
. Violet on the terrace at Belvoir in 1895

17
. and
18
. John, photographed by Charlie Lindsay, shortly after Haddon’s death

19
. John, aged thirteen, at Stanton Woodhouse, the family’s home in Derbyshire

20. A portrait of John by Sir James Shannon, painted in 1908

21
. The seafront at Messina after the earthquake on 28 December 1908

22
. Violet, Duchess of Rutland, by Sir James Shannon,
c
.1890

23
. Henry, Duke of Rutland, and Charlie Lindsay,
c
.1920

24
. Violet, Duchess of Rutland,
c
.1915

25
. John in the summer of 1909

26
. The War Office in 1914 (IWM Q42033)

27
. General Sir Edward Bethune

28
. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum

29
. John in the courtyard at Arlington Street before leaving for the Front in February 1915

30
. George Gordon Moore

31
. Lady Diana Manners,
c
.1915

32
. Field Marshal Sir John French with his ADC, Lt.-Col. Fitzgerald Watt, on the Western Front in June 1915.

33
. Field Marshal Sir John French in his dress uniform

34
. Walking wounded at Vermelles, during the later stages of the Battle of Loos

35
. Officers of the 4th Leicestershire Regiment at Luton, October 1914

36
. Goldfish Château, where John had tea with General Pulteney on 5 July 1915

37
. Gassed soldiers at Casualty Clearing Station No. 8, Bailleul (IWM 114867)

38
. General Edward Stuart Wortley

39
. Rothesay Stuart Wortley

40
. 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

42
. Henry, Duke of Rutland, is toasted by his family after receiving the Order of the Garter from King George V

43
. John and Kakoo

44
. Henry and his daughter Diana

45
. Kakoo and Charlie Lindsay, 1918

46
. John at the christening of his second son, John

47
. Haddon Hall

48
. Haddon Hall by Rex Whistler

49
. John’s sons at King George VI’s coronation

50
. John poses with the local cricket team and his bulldog Belvoir, 1937

51
. The funeral of Violet, Duchess of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, January 1938

52
. The cortège arrives at the mausoleum in the grounds of the castle

53
. David, the present and 11th Duke of Rutland

54
. Emma, Duchess of Rutland

All the photographs are reproduced courtesy of His Grace, the Duke of Rutland with the following exceptions:
4
,
15
,
47
, Konrad Gabriel;
48
, Mrs Robin Ravilious;
22
, Bridgeman Art Library;
26
,
37
, Imperial War Museum;
27
,
28
,
33
, Library of Congress;
30
, Getty Images;
31
, Julian P. Graham / Loon Hill Studios;
32
,
34
, from Richard Holmes,
The Little Field Marshal
;
36
from ‘The Long, Long Trail:
www.1914-1918.net
/;
38
, from Robert Franklin,
The Fringes of History: The Life and Times of Edward Stuart Wortley
;
39
, from Rothesay Stuart Wortley,
Letters from a Flying Officer
.

Manners Family Tree

PART I
18–27 April 1940
1

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.

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