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The Victorian Billionaire Who Built a Room That Shouldn't Exist

The Victorian Billionaire Who Built a Room That Shouldn't Exist In the hills of Surrey, forty feet beneath the surface of a private lake, there is a ballroom. It has a domed glass ceiling, crystal chandeliers, and stained glass windows. Guests once descended through an iron and glass tunnel to smoke cigars and watch fish swim overhead in filtered green light. The man who built this impossible room was Whitaker Wright—one of the richest men in Victorian England, a financial genius, and a fraud. When his empire collapsed in 1900, thousands of investors lost everything. In 1904, moments after being sentenced to seven years in prison, Wright excused himself to speak with his lawyer and swallowed cyanide. The underwater ballroom still exists, but no one has entered it in decades. This is the story of the room that should not exist, and the man who refused to accept that anything was impossible.