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Also by Fiona Carnarvon:

Lady Catherine, The Earl, And The Real Downton Abbey, November 2013
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Lady Almina And The Real Downton Abbey, January 2012
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LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY
By: Fiona Carnarvon

The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

Broadway Paperbacks
January 2012
On Sale: December 27, 2011
310 pages
ISBN: 0770435629
EAN: 9780770435622
Kindle: B0060AY7Z8
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Non-Fiction Biography

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th 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.
 
Much like her Masterpiece Classic counterpart Lady Cora Crawley, 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.
 
This rich tale contrasts the splendor of Edwardian life in a great house against the backdrop of the First World War and offers an inspiring and revealing picture of the woman at the center of the history of Highclere Castle.

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