Tredegar House Parties, Frolics and Fun 1934-1938 : Highlights

“Tredegar House : Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun”

“Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's House Guests 1934-1938”            

    

·      A  cast list of over 300 guests who slept under Evan Morgan’s (Viscount Tredegar’s) 500-year-old-roof  at Tredegar House,  Newport, South Wales,  between 1934  and 1938.

·  The truth about the séances, spooky nights  and fortune telling!

·    Biographical sketches, dates of visits & photographs of the good, bad and disgraceful, including literary personalities, politicians,  spies, spivs, & many of the rich & noble & some  glamorous women of the era.

·   Details of  the famous novelist who finished off the final chapters of a best   seller at  Tredegar House? 

·   After the  ‘ rumour and myth’  that the American  Denham (Denny) Fouts ‘The World’s Best Kept Boy’ was ‘saved’ from jail by Evan Morgan,  what are the facts of  Evan’s relationship with Fouts, a boy  dubbed by Gore Vidal as “un homme fatal” . Did Fouts ever come to Tredegar House?

·    The gigolo and the  Archbishop…..

·     ‘Jolly boy’ sex and drugs  trips for Evan’s inner crowd to secret places. 

·  The facts concerning  Evan Morgan’s friendship with Crown Prince Paul of Greece ( later King of Greece).

·  Revelations (and written evidence ) of  how the ill-fated  Prince George, Duke of Kent became indebted to Evan Morgan. Learn too how Evan took charge of the Duke’s honeymoon trip in  Nassau.

·  Personal testimony and anecdotes from Alan Pryce-Jones,  Brian Howard,Cyril Hughes Hartmann, Lord Charles Carnegie, Desmond Leslie and many others on Evan Morgan’s house parties.

·   Recollections of a world  famous conductor’s stay-over at Tredegar House when he and his 92 musicians played to packed audiences at Cardiff and Swansea, making Welsh  musical history.

·  How Evan Morgan’s house party of 1936 reacted to the news of the Abdication of King Edward VIII,  a few weeks after the visit to Tredegar House by one of the King’s former mistresses and after Evan  met the King  during the infamous Valleys tour of “Special Areas”.

For further information contact the Author, William Cross, FSA Scot, by e-mail

williecross@aol.com

The book is available direct from William Cross and on e-bay and Amazon.

Tredegar House : Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun: Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's House Guests 1934-1938

Tredegar House : Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun

Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's House Guests 

1934-1938.   

Compiled by William Cross

FROM  NEWPORT HISTORIAN :  WILLIAM CROSS

·        A new book about  Evan Morgan’s notorious weekend house parties  has been published by Book Midden Publishing.

·        The compiler is Newport writer/historian  William Cross, FSA Scot,  author of eight other books featuring members of the Morgan family.

·         A complimentary segment of the book ie  the introduction (10 pages as a PDF file)   and  promotional flyers are available from the Author on request by e-mail. See contact details, below.

Essential reading for those interested in Newport’s most famous family and their history  and those who want to know the truth about Evan’s hospitality and who he invited to stay under his 500 year old roof during his early years as the lord of the Manor.

Cross adds “ The book is 150 pages long, over 55,000 words with over 400 End Notes. The main text  contains  over  100 images. There is also a  directory of over 300 guests whom Evan entertained, with biographical details, and dates when they visited Tredegar House,  some entries have photographs ”.

* Further Enquiries about the book etc please contact

William Cross

58 Sutton Newport, Newport, NP 19 7JF

Telephone: 01633 779731

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“Tredegar House : Weekend Parties, Frolics and Fun”

“Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar's House Guests 1934-1938. “  Compiled by  William Cross. ISBN 9781905914531.   ( 2019)

Contact William Cross by e-mail

williecross@aol.com

The book is on Amazon and on e-bay.

 ISBN 9781905914531.