Due for release September 10th 2013 ‘Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune,’ is a book about a house, the man who built it and the fate of his only surviving daughter, Huguette Clark, after his death. I would have read this book if it was …
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Mansions of Mayfair
According to E. Beresford Chancellor, if “we sought for one particular feature distinguishing London from the other capitals of Europe, apart from its immense proportions, it would probably be found in the number of its large houses–many of which are indeed private palaces.” Mayfair had not always been fashionable, and long after the areas of …