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Stately Passions provides a fascinating insight into the lives, loves – and morals – of some notorious denizens of the aristocratic world.

An entertaining, informative and often rather shocking study behind infamous scandals which thirteen of Britain’s great stately homes have been involved in over the centuries. Stately Passions covers everyone from King Edward VIII and his affair with the divorced Wallace Simpson that lead to his abdication, to the affairs of the famous socialite and lesbian Vita Sackville-West. All the scandal is uncovered in this one un-putdownable collection.