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Book of the Week - Lady Worsley's Whim - The Escape

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Rosamund Pike reads from Hallie Rubenhold's account of the marriage of Sir Richard and Lady Worsley, the details of whose private life scandalised 18th-century society when they were revealed in court. Lady Seymour Worsley and her lover Captain Bisset elope to London.