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The dead Duke, his secret wife and the missing corpse, an extraordinary Edwardian case of deception and intrigue, Piu Marie Eatwell

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The dead Duke, his secret wife and the missing corpse, an extraordinary Edwardian case of deception and intrigue, Piu Marie Eatwell

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The dead Duke, his secret wife and the missing corpse

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

883870121

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Piu Marie Eatwell

Sub title

an extraordinary Edwardian case of deception and intrigue

Summary

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 application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had been none other than the eccentric and massively wealthy 5th Duke of Portland, and that the - now dead - Duke had faked the death of his alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce's coffin

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