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A Secret Between Gentlemen: Lord Battersea's hidden scandal and the lives it changed forever.
Hardcover
Series: A Secret Between Gentlemen, Book 1
Biographies GeneralBritish History
ISBN13: 9781764256698
Publisher: Alchemie Books
Published: Jan 12 2026
Pages: 900
Weight: 2.97
Height: 2.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
a carefully researched book... The main story is one of intrigue, filled with sex, crime, political scandal, outlandish lives, and an extraordinary cover-up. - William Burton, The Gay & Lesbian Review
the hidden scandal, previously unknown to historians... Peter Jordaan... traveled the world, seeking documents, meeting descendants... there are some splendid anecdotes - Lord Lexden, The House parliamentary magazine
Peter Jordaan brings him to life, warts and all, and for that we must be grateful. - Journal of Liberal History
A true story stranger than fiction, A Secret Between Gentlemen reveals the British Government's coverup of a homosexual scandal involving prominent names. Buried for 120 years, and spanning England, Australia, and Algeria, this astonishing history of shattered and reinvented lives has never been told - until now.
A SECRET DEEPLY HIDDEN
In summer 1902, as Britain prepared for King Edward VII's coronation, officials scrambled to hush a major criminal case. It involved procuring youths for thirty aristocratic gentlemen, including members of parliament. The ringleader was M.P. Cyril Flower, Lord Battersea, considered the most handsome man in Parliament, married to heiress Constance de Rothschild.
PRIVILEGED JUSTICE
The scandal was smothered by officials, including King Edward VII, to avoid a great national disgrace. Most involved received immunity, except two procurers quietly imprisoned in a stage-managed trial. A third, who absconded, became a Vatican chamberlain to Pope Pius XI.
DEEPLY RESEARCHED
Meticulously researched worldwide with living descendants' help, this 890-page book details investigations, arrests, trials, and behind-the-scenes machinations. It includes 50 pages of photographs, many never previously published. This is the first volume, and seventh edition of the A Secret Between Gentlemen biographical trilogy.
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