All That Was Left tells the story of Henry Cyril Paget and the Great Anglesey Sales, which saw all he had owned sold to pay his debts.
Henry Cyril Paget (1875-1905) succeeded the title of the 5th Marquess of Anglesey and inherited Plas Newydd in 1898 along with about 110,000 a year, which is the equivalent of about 18-20million today.
He renamed it Anglesey Castle and spared no expense in making it his own.
He surrounded himself with luxurious clothing, costumes, and jewellery; he staged performances and fancy-dress balls in his own theatre and he indulged in new technologies including motor cars and photography.
Due to his mismanagement of money, the Marquess was eventually declared insolvent, such that everything he owned had to be so…
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