From ratcatcher to keeper of the snow: royal servants enter the spotlight in new exhibitions
Life below stairs in the palaces and grand houses of Britain takes centre stage in a series of exhibitions
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Life below stairs in the palaces and grand houses of Britain takes centre stage in a series of exhibitions
Was neurosis to blame for kleptomaniac's drinking and compulsive crime?
Was neurosis to blame for kleptomaniac's drinking and compulsive crime?
Was neurosis to blame for kleptomaniac's drinking and compulsive crime?
THE MORRID SCANDAL AT TRANBY CROFT JAMES BANNERMAN ln the Nineties in England, there was one breach of conduct for which an officer and gentleman could never be excused — cheating at cards. The shame of Sir William Gordon-Cumming began at a royal house party. The Prince of Wales himself was there and the awful echoes shook the Empire ON THE AFTERNOON of September 8, 1890, two frock-coated gentlemen strolled along a platform under the great glass roof of King’s Cross railway station in London. Behind them a safari-like procession of porters carried their elegant luggage—pigskin hatboxes,...