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Lady Almina And The Real Downton Abbey
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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