The Prince and the Plunder by Andrew Heavens

Author:Andrew Heavens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press

* That is using The National Archives calculator. Using the method used by Sathnam Sanghera in his book Empireland, we are talking closer to £450,000 a year today.

* Julia Margaret Cameron was the great-aunt of Virginia Woolf. Just over forty years later, in 1910, the writer took part in the infamous Dreadnought hoax – a high-society prank where Woolf, her brother and a group of friends blacked up and dressed as a party of visiting Abyssinian royalty to trick their way onto a British battleship. ‘Abyssinian’ was a costume for the British upper classes – across the generations.

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