I stumbled across a copy of A Silver-plated Spoon by one of the dukes of Bedford when I was a teenager and thinking, “These people are all a few screws short of a hardware store.” Still think so.
There's a great comment by a woman who worked in these big houses - as scullery maid and then cook - who basically concluded that it takes a very strong person to withstand having that little to do, and for most of them it send them mad...
I stumbled across a copy of A Silver-plated Spoon by one of the dukes of Bedford when I was a teenager and thinking, “These people are all a few screws short of a hardware store.” Still think so.
There's a great comment by a woman who worked in these big houses - as scullery maid and then cook - who basically concluded that it takes a very strong person to withstand having that little to do, and for most of them it send them mad...