Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : [the lost legacy of Highclere Castle]

Resource Information

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Label

Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : [the lost legacy of Highclere Castle]

Title remainder

[the lost legacy of Highclere Castle]

Statement of responsibility

The Countess of Carnarvon

Creator

• Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of

Contributor

• McCaddon, Wanda

Subject

• Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, Earl of, 1866-1923
• Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• Highclere Castle
• Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain
• Carnarvon, Almina, Countess of, 1876-1969

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war. Lady Almina was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who married his daughter off at a young age, her dowry serving as the crucial link in the effort to preserve the Earl of Carnarvon's ancestral home. Throwing open the doors of Highclere Castle to tend to the wounded of World War I, Lady Almina distinguished herself as a brave and remarkable woman

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 942.2/71
• B

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

DA570

LC item number

.C37 2011

PerformerNote

Read by Wanda McCaddon