Lady Almina and the Story of the Real Downton Abbey by Lady Fiona Carnarvon, Hodder & Stoughton, $32.99
The perfect gift for lovers of the television series Downton Abbey, a show filmed at magnificent Highclere Castle, home of Lady Almina, Countess of Carnarvon, from 1895 until 1923.
The much loved but illegitimate daughter of a Jewish billionaire financier, Almina was vastly wealthy but her questionable birth made her unacceptable in certain circles.
Daddy fixed that with a marriage to the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, a financially strapped aristocratic adventurer.
Almina’s transformation from debutante to society lady and eventually war nurse is fascinating, as is her husband’s triumphant discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb.
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