Love & inheritance
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"From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change. The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious financial concerns. The ripple effects spread to everyone in the household: Lord Robert, who has gambled unwisely...
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As 1901 comes to an end, the Dilberne fortune has been restored and Dilberne Court has been saved. Lord Robert's son, Arthur, is happily married to Minnie, a Chicago heiress, who is pregnant. Amid preparations for the coronation of Edward VII, Lord Robert and Lady Isobel debate the future of their recently orphaned niece, Adela. While they argue, Adela runs away with a traveling group of spiritualists and has a lifesaving run-in with the king.
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"England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months a way. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are problems. Little James is being reared to Lady Isobel's tastes,...