Ebook: Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
Author: Carnarvon Almina, Carnarvon Fiona, Carnarvon George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, Carnarvon Almina, Carnarvon George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert
- Genre: Literature // Prose
- Tags: Библиотека, Зарубежная литература, На английском языке
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
- City: New York, Great Britain, Great Britain
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed
- Language: English
- epub
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 theRead 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