Real-life Prints Incident

In one early scene in Hazardous to a Duke’s Heart, the hero is horrified to discover that his collection of fine prints was stolen by the brothers he’d left behind and then used to paper their rooms. You may be surprised to hear that I did not make that up. It actually happened to a deténu named John Stanhope. According to The Letter Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer:

At length, on what John Stanhope subsequently described as the happiest
day of his life, he reached Cannon Hall; and he used to relate that one of
the first discoveries which he made on entering his old home convinced him
how confident at one time his family must have been that he was numbered
with the dead, for a very valuable collection of prints, which he had
greatly prized, had, in view of his supposed decease, been employed by his
brothers in papering one of the bachelors' bedrooms!

I have two brothers myself and can easily imagine them doing something like this!