Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...iron lung from an attack of polio, his dark-haired wife had had an affair with their children's tutor, a young man (23), fresh down from Cambridge, named Gerald Anthony ("Tonykins") Lowther. For 17 days the court listened to excerpts from letters describing "nights of passion and ecstasy," heard two butlers, a secretary, a nanny and a governess tell of warm embraces on the Blue Landing of the great staircase of Ingestre Hall and meetings in the White Room and the Bird Room. Last week, after one of the most costly ($56,000) divorce cases in British history...