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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
The Dead Duke His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
Author: Piu Marie Eatwell
The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C. Druce. Behind her ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781781856109
ISBN-10: 1781856109
Publication Date: 5/7/2015
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Head of Zeus
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Fascinating account of a British court case that dragged out over a decade. An old woman claims her father in law, T.C. Druce, wealthy owner of a department store in London, did not die as reported, and that lead was placed in his coffin in lieu of his body. More astonishing, she claims he wasn't even who he said he was, but rather was the extremely eccentric Fifth Duke of Portland, and thus even more fabulously wealthy. This story, and the efforts to prevent opening of the coffin, lead to speculations and accusations which filled the tabloids for years. As one reviewer put it, this story is like Downton Abbey meets the Addams Family.


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