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Eatwell, Piu Marie.
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Portland, William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Duke of, 1800-1879 -- Death and burial.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
False imprisonment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Trials (Fraud) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Dead duke, his secre...
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Dead
duke
, his
secret
wife
and the
missing
corpse
.
by
Eatwell, Piu Marie.
[S.l.] : Head Of Zeus, 2015. 2015.
Subjects
Portland, William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck,
Duke
of, 1800-1879 -- Death and burial.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
False imprisonment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Trials (Fraud) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. In 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 father-in-law, T.C. Druce. Behind her application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had been none other than the eccentric and massively wealthy 5th
Duke
of Portland, and that the - now
dead
-
Duke
had faked the death of his alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce's coffin would be found to be empty. And her children, therefore, were heirs to the Portland millions. The legal case that followed would last for ten years. Its eventual outcome revealed a dark underbelly of lies lurking beneath the genteel facade of late Victorian England.
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