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305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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Prologue : The balloon (nearly) goes up : the five fields -- Thomas Cubitt and Robert Grosvenor : Eaton Square -- William Arden, Ralph Bernal, Lord Truro, and Klemens von Metternich : 10, 44, 62, and 93 Eaton Square -- George Grey, George Peabody, Matthew James Higgins, and Hugh Grosvenor : 14 Eaton Place, 71 and 80 Eaton Square -- W. S. Gilbert : 90 Eaton Square -- Diana Mitford : 2 Eaton Square -- Neville Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Lord Halifax, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Bendor Grosvenor : 37, 86, and 93 Eaton Square -- Rex Harrison and Vivien Leigh : 54 and 75 Eaton Square -- Raymond Chandler, Ian Fleming, and Terence Rattigan : 29 and 116 Eaton Square -- Lord Boothby : 165 Eaton Place and 1 Eaton Square -- Lord Lucan : 22 Eaton Square and 46 Lower Belgrave Street -- Epilogue : The ghosts of Eaton Square : 93 Eaton Square
"Windsor biographer Alexander Larman takes you behind the doors of Eaton Square, London's most sought-after address. In the classic PBS series Upstairs, Downstairs, the aristocratic Bellamy family lived at the fictitious 165 Eaton Place, a grand home in one of London's most beautiful garden squares just minutes from Buckingham Palace. But, what really goes on behind the beautiful, polished doors of one of London's most sought-after addresses? In The Secrets of Eaton Square: Sex, Scandal and Infamy on the Road to Buckingham Palace, Alexander Larman opens those doors wide to the scandalous social and political history of Eaton Square that begins in the eighteenth century and runs right up until today. With a cast of characters that includes everyone from Neville Chamberlain, Joachim von Ribbentrop (the lover of Wallis Simpson), Diana Mitford, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Thatcher, and even James Bond, Larman's book brings Eaton Square alive. The list of luminaries and the powerful who lived on the square goes on and on today, from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Saatchi to today's parade of Russian oligarchs whose money has given the area a new moniker: "Red Square." No matter what it is called, Eaton Square remains an iconic byword for moneyed luxury and glamorous discretion that, at times, is the playground of off-duty royals. Let Alexander Larman unlock the doors of Eaton Square for you. He has all the keys..."-- Provided by publisher
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Elite (Social sciences) -- England -- London
Sex scandals -- England -- London -- History
Upper class -- England -- London
Eaton Square (London, England)
Upper class -- England -- History -- 19th century
Upper class -- England -- History -- 20th century
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Upper class -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century