The Water Gypsy Julie Ann Godson

At dusk on a snowy March evening in 1766 a tired young couple made out the welcoming lights burning in the windows of the creaky old Berkshire manor house that was to be their home. He was William Flower, Viscount Ashbrook, she was Betty Ridge, daughter of a humble Thames fisherman. Earlier that day they had been married in a little village church in Oxfordshire, and now Betty was embarking on a new life in the alien world of the aristocracy. But the challenges she would face would prove far greater than she could have imagined. Based on the author"s original research, The Water Gypsy traces the untold story of Betty"s struggle as a young widow to protect her children"s interests in the hostile climate of 18th-century Ireland, and her son"s ultimate triumph at Windsor Castle and St James"s Palace. It was a project which culminated in the most glittering marriage in the entire history of the Ashbrook family when Betty"s granddaughter became Duchess of Marlborough and chatelaine of Blenheim Palace. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Water Gypsy (Julie Ann Godson)