
Book Launch: Tredegar House – Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun
Newport Author William Cross, FSA Scot, launches his latest book Tredegar House: Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun. Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar’s House Guests 1934-1938.
In the years 1934-1949 Evan Morgan Viscount Tredegar held court at his Welsh mansion, Tredegar House, an impressive 17th century red brick building set in 100 acres of parkland near Newport. Invitations to Evan’s country house weekends were highly prized. But how many house guests passed through the gates of Tredegar House in the Evan years? Who actually stayed there and when? What of the legends of Evan’s séances, outrageous parlour game of charades, riotous drinking and orgies to compare with Caligula’s Rome? What is the truth, and what are the myths about these crazy weekends?
In this book William Cross, author of previous Morgan books reveals the identity of the scores of people who were Evan’s guests.
To find out more about the book, visit: https://lord-carnarvon.blogspot.com/2019/10/evan-morgans-house-parties-and-weekends.html