{"product_id":"diamonds-at-dinner-my-life-as-a-ladys-maid-in-a-1930s-stately-home-9781782196105","title":"Diamonds At Dinner: My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of tiaras and a Coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain's most noble families.  In her fascinating memoir of life upstairs and down, Hilda takes us back to a gilded era which would be brutally swept away by the Second World War. Hers is a very personal story of being transplanted from a tiny house with no bath or hot water to an eighteenth-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by parkland landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown.  But it is also the remarkable story of the family whose service she entered - and that of Croome Court itself: during World War Two, it housed the Dutch Royal Family - who had fled the Nazi occupation - and it was also home to the top-secret RAF base where radar was developed. This is Hilda's story.","brand":"John Blake Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771467891031,"sku":"9781782196105","price":13.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782196105.jpg?v=1758727970","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diamonds-at-dinner-my-life-as-a-ladys-maid-in-a-1930s-stately-home-9781782196105","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}