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The National Archives. The National Archives contain important documents from the Home Office, Director of Public Prosecutions, and Metropolitan Police files relating to the initial claims by Anna Maria Druce and the later perjury and conspiracy charges. A number of the files were classified until the 1980s. Detailed references to the National Archive files relating to the Druce case are contained in the endnotes, and are prefaced by the reference NA. Files reviewed were:
PRO BT 31/11183/85345
PRO BT 31/12175/95549
PRO DPP 1/11
PRO HO 45/10541/157177
PRO HO 144/1020/160196
PRO MEPO 3/174
PRO MEPO 3/175
PRO MEPO 3/176
PRO TS 18/272
BT31/12141/95200
HO45/10253/X27066
J14/560
In addition, there are references to documents in the London Metropolitan Archives, particularly relating to nineteenth-century workhouse records, which are prefaced by the reference LMA. References to birth, marriage and death certificates, together with census records, are identified by the appropriate source reference.
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Police photograph of the coffin of T. C. Druce: The National Archives
About this Book
The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.
In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T.C. Druce.
Behind her application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had been none other than the eccentric and massively wealthy 5th Duke of Portland, and that the – now dead – Duke had faked the death of his alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce’s coffin would be found to be empty. And her children, therefore, were heirs to the Portland millions.
The extraordinary legal case that followed would last for ten years. Its eventual outcome revealed a dark underbelly of lies lurking beneath the genteel facade of late Victorian England.
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