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Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
- Title
- Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : the lost legacy of Highclere Castle / by the Countess of Carnarvon.
- Author
- Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of
- Publication
- New York : Broadway Paperbacks, [2011]
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Details
- Description
- x, 325 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Great Britain
- Nobility
- Biography
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Carnarvon, Almina, Countess of, 1876-1969
- Nobility > Great Britain > Biography
- Biographies
- Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, Earl of, 1866-1923
- Manners and customs
- Highclere Castle
- World War (1914-1918)
- 1900-1999
- World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-300) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-2166
- ISBN
- 9780770435622
- 0770435629
- LCCN
- 2011042617
- OCLC
- 758387421
- Author
- Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of, author.
- Title
- Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : the lost legacy of Highclere Castle / by the Countess of Carnarvon.
- Publisher
- New York : Broadway Paperbacks, [2011]
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-300) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-2166