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The Duke’s Secret (Sue Williams, A&U)

Tuesday, 2 December 2025    Books+Publishing
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In The Duke’s Secret, the latest historical fiction by Sue Williams (The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress), journalist Ava Washington sets out to verify a family legend. According to the story, her great, great, great grandmother, Mary Ann Marshal, bore an illegitimate daughter fathered by the Duke of Wellington....

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