In the original dustsheet. Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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                                                       A saucy happy book!

Everything is not always what it seems behind the doors of the stately homes of Britain, and it’s often the stories that the tour guide didn’t tell you as you wandered in wonderment around the grand houses that are the most revealing and entertaining. In this witty and irreverent book the Seventh Earl of Bradford uncovers the stories that you won’t hear from the guide. Full of first-hand true tales told to Lord Bradford by his fellow peers, butlers, maids, gardeners and chauffeurs, Stately Secrets captures in brilliant, hilarious colour the real life behind the scenes – from Page 3 girls in the four-poster bedroom to the Countess surprised in her bath!

Review: This book gives stories of gentry anecdotes, from historical to the present. Some are simply amusing, others had me laughing fit to have a (waterworks) accident. I have really enjoyed reading it, it is all in a personal style that leaves you feeling as if you know the people personally, rather like hearing radio and/or TV broadcasters and feeling as if you know them. I also have even more respect for the difficulties and privacy of the lives of the aristocracy.

The Author: Richard, Earl of Bradford, is a prominent media personality. He is the proprietor of Porters English Restaurant in Covent Garden, London, and is President of the Master Chefs of Great Britain, a Committee Member of the Restaurant Association of Great Britain, and President of the Wrekin Tourism Association and Wrekin Heritage. He writes a monthly column in the Express & Star and is also a member of The Guild of Food Writers.