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MANY families have a secret a skeleton that stays well and truly locked int he closet City highflier and novelist Louise Patten knows all about this kind of cloak and dagger concealment because for almost a century her own family has kept a secret of historical magnitude Her story is not a tale of illegitimate heirs or ill gotten gains Instead Louise 57 who is married to former Conservative education secretary and life peer John Patten claims to know what caused the Titanic to sink