The Mistresses of Cliveden · Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Livingstone, Natalie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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About the Book About the Author Title Page Dedication Cast of Characters Timeline Introduction PART I: ANNA MARIA

1 The Duel, Barn Elms, 16 January 1668 2 ‘Beds of Jewels and Rich Mines of Gold’ 3 ‘He Came, He Saw and Conquered’ 4 A London Love Triangle 5 The Drama of Politics 6 Conception 7 Betrayals 8 ‘Your Most Unhappy Mother’ 9 Construction 10 The Lost Mistress

PART II: ELIZABETH

1 From Richmond to ‘Royal Whore’ 2 The End of the Affair 3 Favours 4 Rebuilding 5 ‘This Place Is Too Engaging’ 6 ‘The Wisest Woman I Ever Saw’ 7 ‘I Have Tired Myself with Fright’ 8 The Green Revolution 9 ‘It Was as if His Majesty Had Lived Here’ 10 ‘The Shock Is Greater Than I Ever Had in My Life’

PART III: AUGUSTA

1 Rule, Britannia! 2 Rise 3 ‘A Profusion of Finery’ 4 A Hanoverian Soap Opera 5 The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the Queen 6 The Charms of Sylvia 7 Fall 8 ‘A Site of Ruin’

PART IV: HARRIET

1 ‘Goodbye, Castle Howard!’ 2 Reform and Revolution 3 Fear in a Time of Cholera 4 North and South 5 ‘A Leviathan of Wealth’ 6 Crisis in the Bedchamber 7 A Marriage, a Death and a Blaze 8 A Resurrection 9 ‘Thou Hypocrite’ 10 ‘What a Hold a Place Has Upon One’ 11 An Independent Widow 12 Garibaldi-mania 13 The Pushing Stick

PART V: NANCY

1 The Chronicles of Cliveden 2 The Thrill of the Chase 3 There’s No Place Like Home 4 Life Among the Ruins 5 ‘A Lady for Parliament’ 6 ‘A Rattlesnake in the House’ 7 The Domestic Despot 8 Convictions 9 The Cliveden Set Up 10 Cartwheels in the Bunker 11 Farewell to Both My Houses 12 School for Scandal

Notes Select Bibliography Picture Credits Index Acknowledgements Copyright