Diamonds At Dinner - My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home.
'I thought I'd gone to a prison.' This was Hilda Newman's first impression when, at the age of 19, she left her parents' little terraced cottage in Lincolnshire and embarked on a new life as a lady's maid at Croome Court, the enormous stately home of Lord and Lady Coventry.
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