The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery (56 page)

13. John.

14. Haddon, aged nine. The photograph was taken shortly before his death.

15. Haddon’s tomb. Violet’s inscription reads:

Hope of my eyes Something is broken that we cannot mend

With Grief, Remembrance, Pride and Love, I decorate his memory

Dear, dear little boy, You gave us all Perpetual Benediction

Entirely designed and modelled by his Mother

16. Violet on the terrace at Belvoir in 1895, the year after Haddon died.

17 and 18. John, photographed by Charlie Lindsay, shortly after Haddon’s death.

19. John, aged thirteen, at Stanton Woodhouse, the family’s home in Derbyshire.

20. A portrait of John by Sir James Shannon, painted in 1908, a few months before he was appointed Honorary Attaché at the British Embassy in Rome.

21. The seafront at Messina after the earthquake on 28 December 1908.

22. Violet, Duchess of Rutland, by Sir James Shannon,
c
.1890.

23. Henry, Duke of Rutland, and Charlie Lindsay,
c
.1920.

24. Violet, Duchess of Rutland,
c
.1915.

25. John (
first on the left
) in the summer of 1909.