The power and the glory Golf complemented by two in-depth essays

complemented by two in-depth essays by curators William A

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The power and the glory Golf complemented by two in-depth essaysIn the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation's stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand in hand with duty and honour. This was a time when the ancestral seats of ancient nobility stood side by side with the fabulous palaces of Jewish bankers and Indian princes, when dukes and duchesses mixed with aristocratic society hostesses