These are the REAL below-stairs stories from the time of servants, lords, ladies and the great divide between Upstairs and Downstairs.  Margaret Powell – shrewd, unabashed and wickedly funny – was originally interviewed on radio in the late sixties to talk about her life as a servant and the response was so intense that it spawned a series of books of her experiences.  Read about the household where she had to iron the bootlaces; the guest who kept hot potatoes in her cleavage…not to mention the gentleman who like to stroke the housemaid’s curlers (!).  You couldn’t invent these stories.