Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty (Audiobook)
Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty (Audiobook) By Catherine Bailey, read by Gareth Armstrong
Unabridged edition 2009 | 15 hours and 13 minutes | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: B002SQ1W2Y | MP3 48 kbps | 329 MB
Unabridged edition 2009 | 15 hours and 13 minutes | ISBN: n/a , ASIN: B002SQ1W2Y | MP3 48 kbps | 329 MB
Wentworth is today a crumbling and forgotten palace in Yorkshire. Yet just 100 years ago it was the ancestral pile of the Fitzwilliam's - an aristocratic clan whose home and life were fuelled by coal mining. This is the story of their spectacular decline: of inheritance fights; rumours of a changeling and of lunacy; philandering earls; illicit love; war heroism: a tragic connection to the Kennedy's; violent deaths: mining poverty and squalor; and a class war that literally ripped apart the local landscape.