The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell

Eatwell often digresses to insert background, enriching the narrative with juicy details from the time period, or to note other sensational cases (both George Eliot and Charles Dickens were involved in double lives, for instance), positing that the period's restrictive social mores often forced people into scandalous situations. Besides recounting years of subterfuge, media hype, greed, and fraud, Eatwell throws light on Victorian and Edwardian society: aristocratic entitlement and power, numbing poverty, political corruption, and many secret lives., It's Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in Piu Marie Eatwell's The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse. The rigorous research is the book's strength. 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. Exploring a culture filled with arcane laws, historical incidents, and bizarre paradoxes, Piu Eatwells follow up to her award-winning and critically. Eatwell follows the case from beginning to end, providing background on judges, lawyers, evidence (some fraudulent, some circumstantial and problematic), and unreliable witnesses details the duke and Druce's similarities (appearance, mannerisms, diet, infirmities, habits) and covers the provocative madness of the trial. Read Online The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue EPUB by Piu Marie Eatwell is a. Ten years passed before the case ended in January 1908, ultimately involving 12 judges, 14 hearings, and numerous investigators and witnesses. Druce, also deceased she petitioned the court for an exhumation of Druce, convinced that her son was the duke's legitimate heir.

Straightlaced Victorians reveled in the salacious details of this court case, which began when Anna Maria Druce alleged that the deceased duke had led a double life as businessman T.C. Eatwell (They Eat Horses, Don't They?) offers a meticulous examination of a late Victorian/early Edwardian cause célèbre involving the fifth Duke of Portland, a well-to-do London merchant, and a case of disputed identity.

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell