
Wellington
A highly personal, anecdotal family memoir of the Wellington legacy.
Jane Wellesley is a member of one of Britain''s most illustrious families. Her father, the 8th Duke of Wellington, was born in 1915, a hundred years after the first Duke''s momentous victory over Napoleon at Waterloo, but only a little over sixty years after the death of his celebrated ancestor. When the ''Iron Duke'' died Queen V...
A highly personal, anecdotal family memoir of the Wellington legacy.
Jane Wellesley is a member of one of Britain''s most illustrious families. Her father, the 8th Duke of Wellington, was born in 1915, a hundred years after the first Duke''s momentous victory over Napoleon at Waterloo, but only a little over sixty years after the death of his celebrated ancestor. When the ''Iron Duke'' died Queen V...