The scandal of the century

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' Gloriously mind-boggling . . .This is a lively book, full of saucy millennial-type analogies' Spectator – London, 1682. When Lady Henrietta Berkeley elopes with her sister’s husband, her subsequent capture and the lawsuit that follows tears through Restoration England as the scandal of the century.

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