The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago

An unofficial guide to the period that inspired the hit TV show.

Step back a hundred years to the world of the pampered, privileged upper classes and find out exactly what went on behind the magisterial doors of Edwardian stately homes. Rubbing shoulders with wealth and privilege, the staff were privy to the most intimate secrets, but faced ruin if they ventured to make even the smallest step outside the boundaries of their class-ridden world.