Country Images Magazine May 2015 - North Edition | Page 15

Left top: The Baker Street Bazzaar, T.C.
Druce’s profitable London department
store.
Left middle: The North Lodge and
tunnel entrance, Welbeck Abbey.
Left bottom: One of the many
underground tunnels beneath Welbeck
Abbey.
Right top: The 5th Duke of Portland,
from an old caricature drawing in Figaro.
Far right top: The Druce tomb in
Highgate Cemetery.
Right bottom: George Hollamby Druce,
one of the claimants in the case, in an
Austrailan bushman’s outfit.
Far right bottom: Fanny Lawson, the 5th
Duke of Portland’s daughter.

She wrote fiction for a while before she moved into what she calls “creative
non-fiction”.
“It’s constructive, it’s got a drama, it’s got a story. It took me a while to get
to that, to find out that was where my strength in writing lay.”

THEY EAT HORSES, DON’T THEY?
She moved to France when she married an English lawyer working in
Paris. Her first book, They Eat Horses, Don’t They?, looks at whether
myths about the French ar