Prologue : The balloon (nearly) goes up : the five fields

Thomas Cubitt and Robert Grosvenor : Eaton Square

William Arden, Ralph Bernal, Lord Truro, and Klemens von Metternich : 10, 44, 62, and 93 Eaton Square

George Grey, George Peabody, Matthew James Higgins, and Hugh Grosvenor : 14 Eaton Place, 71 and 80 Eaton Square

W. S. Gilbert : 90 Eaton Square

Diana Mitford : 2 Eaton Square

Neville Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Lord Halifax, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Bendor Grosvenor : 37, 86, and 93 Eaton Square

Rex Harrison and Vivien Leigh : 54 and 75 Eaton Square

Raymond Chandler, Ian Fleming, and Terence Rattigan : 29 and 116 Eaton Square

Lord Boothby : 165 Eaton Place and 1 Eaton Square

Lord Lucan : 22 Eaton Square and 46 Lower Belgrave Street

Epilogue : The ghosts of Eaton Square : 93 Eaton Square.