![]() ![]() The Duke had never married a distant cousin inherited the title and everything that went with it.Īnna Maria said that her son was the true heir to the Portland estate. ![]() Eventually he decided to end his double life and return to the ducal seat, Welbeck Abbey in Worksop, Nottinghamshire until his death some fifteen years later. Under that name the Duke had worked as a furniture dealer, married, and raised a family. ![]() In 1898 a widow named Anna Maria Druce applied for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, Thomas Charles Druce. Her claim was that he had faked his death 1864 death, because he had been the eccentric 5th Duke of Portland, who had chosen to live a different life under a different name. It’s readable, it’s accessible, and its utterly gripping. Piu Marie Eatwell has chosen an extraordinary title, and it suits her wonderfully written and researched telling of a true story that unfolded in late Victorian and early Edwardian England wonderfully well. ![]()
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