Life below stairs

摘要

Winston churchill's valet always said the great man could not dress himself: "He sat there like a dummy and you dressed him." Whether anyone ironed the wartime prime minister's shoe laces, washed his loose change or made sure the yolks in his boiled eggs were centred, Lucy Lethbridge does not say. But as she shows in this absorbing history, much of it in the words of servants, such things were the rule in some houses.