Word: renishaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kings' Blood. Dame Edith was forever conscious that in her veins ran the blood of Robert Bruce and Macbeth, the Kings of France and the Plantagenets of England. Her family had held land near their pinnacled greystone house of Renishaw since 1301. She had a miserable childhood, for her Victorian father disapproved of everything, from her friendship with a peacock to the shape of her nose, which he tried to alter with an iron clamp...