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The Disgraceful Duke

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Innocent and lovely Shimona Bardsley’s father, the celebrated actor Beau Bardsley, has fallen desperately ill and yet he insists on persevering with the evening’s performance as Hamlet at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

A concerned Shimona accompanies him to the theatre where she overhears the notoriously disreputable Duke of Ravenstone – known as ‘His Disgrace’ – offering her father the huge sum of five hundred guineas to find him an actress to play ‘a part’ for just two nights.

Desperate to raise enough money to take her father to a warmer clime and thereby save his life, Shimona accepts the Duke’s offer and finds herself reluctantly embroiled in a deception that her conscience finds hard to bear.

Unchaperoned in the grand Ravenstone House in London with the devilish Duke and an imperious Clan Chieftain, Shimona is afraid, alone and in trouble –

But soon, to her bewilderment and ecstasy, she finds that she is also in love.

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AUTHORS NOTEThe Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, continued to be unlucky until 1809, when it was destroyed by fire – the blaze lit all London. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was faced with utter ruin as the building was under-insured. The theatre was rebuilt and opened in October 1811 and is the Drury Lane we know today. It is the theatre of Edward Kean – the greatest Shylock of all time – of Elliston, Macready, Dan Leno, Sir Johnstone Forbes-Robertson and Sir Henry Irving. From Nell Gwynne to Ivor Novello, Drury Lane stands alone, no other city in the world has its rival. It is part of our history and, as long as London lasts, there will always be a part of it known as ‘The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane’.

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