Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs

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You've read tales of lady's maids and cooks, housekeepers and nannies, but now it's time to hear from the other side of life as a servant. From the lamp boy to the butler, here are the fascinating storis from the men below stairs.

This treasure-trove of memories, collected together by Rosina Harrison, bestselling author of The Lady's Maid, includes the night the ill-fated Edward VIII came to dinner; the time Charlie Chaplin scandalised the servants with his 'familiar' behaviour - and the occasion when a hot potato dropped down a lady's decolletage at a veryexclusive supper party . . .

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Fascinating - Sunday Telegraph

True and firsthand glimpses of a rich aristocratic life that is now all but dead - Sunday Express

Author Bio

Rosina Harrison (known as Rose) was born in Aldfield, North Yorkshire, in 1899. Her mother was a laundry maid and her father a stonemason. Rose went into service in 1918, and she was later a lady's maid to Lady Astor for thirty-five years. She later retired to Worthing where she died in 1989.