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

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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. 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 Read more...

Abstract: 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. 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

Author(s): Carnarvon, Almina; Carnarvon, Fiona; Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert; Carnarvon, Almina; Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group;Broadway Paperbacks
Year: 2011

Language: English
Pages: 325
City: New York, Great Britain, Great Britain
Tags: Библиотека;Зарубежная литература;На английском языке;

Content: Pomp and circumstance --
Welcome to Highclere --
Almina, debutante --
A triumph for her ladyship --
Life downstairs --
Dressing for dinner --
Edwardian Egypt --
The passing of the golden age --
The summer of 1914 --
Call to arms --
Paradise lost --
War heroes --
Hospital on the move --
Death in the trenches --
The dark times --
The promised end --
From war to peace --
Another glittering season --
"Wonderful things" --
Lights out --
Inheritance.