Cocoa At Midnight : The Housekeeper's Tale - the remarkable true story of life below stairs from Princess Diana's family housekeeper
by
Tom Quinn
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
True Stories of Life Below Stairs
ISBN-10
1444735950
ISBN-13
9781444735956
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint
Hodder Paperback
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 11th, 2013
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
222 grams
Dimensions
19.90 x 13.00 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: generalBiography: generalHospitality and service industriesService industries
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Insightful and endearing memoir of a life lived in service as a housekeeper at a stately home.
Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains.
For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once school was over - a life in service. She started work in 1925 as a lowly kitchen maid in the London home of Lady Diana Spencer''s family. Here she heard tales of the Earl''s propensity for setting fire to himself, as well as enjoying the servants'' gossip about who was sleeping with whom.
The Spencers were just the first in a line of eccentric families for whom she worked during a career that lasted more than thirty years and took her from a London palace to remote medieval estates.
But despite long hours, amorous butlers and mad employers, Kathleen always kept her sense of humour and knew how to have fun. On one occasion she was almost caught in bed with her boyfriend who had to jump out of the window and run down the drive in his underwear to escape the local bobby.
Part of the Lives of Servants series. Other titles in the series are: The Maid''s Tale, The Cook''s Tale andThey Also Serve.
For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once school was over - a life in service. She started work in 1925 as a lowly kitchen maid in the London home of Lady Diana Spencer''s family. Here she heard tales of the Earl''s propensity for setting fire to himself, as well as enjoying the servants'' gossip about who was sleeping with whom.
The Spencers were just the first in a line of eccentric families for whom she worked during a career that lasted more than thirty years and took her from a London palace to remote medieval estates.
But despite long hours, amorous butlers and mad employers, Kathleen always kept her sense of humour and knew how to have fun. On one occasion she was almost caught in bed with her boyfriend who had to jump out of the window and run down the drive in his underwear to escape the local bobby.
Part of the Lives of Servants series. Other titles in the series are: The Maid''s Tale, The Cook''s Tale andThey Also Serve.
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