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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey : the Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of. Book on CD - 2012 Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Biography / Carnarvon, Fiona 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.8 out of 5

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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Read by Wanda McCaddon.

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The basis for Downton Abbey submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on July 24, 2013, 12:53am "Downton Abbey" is filmed in the real British Highclere Castle, owned by today's Count and Countess of Carnarvon, who wrote the book. The Count's ancestor was Lady Almina, Countess Carnarvon on whom the fictional Lady Grantham is very vaguely based. Count Carnarvon is best known for funding the expedition in which Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 in Egypt. This book focuses a great deal of that expedition.
The book also details the lavish spending by the Carnarvons, funded mainly by Lady Almina's birth father, a wealthy banker. Her wedding was quite the social event in the late 19th century, made so by her father's excessive spending on it. The book also details how the family ran a private hospital for World War I Army officers, much as the Grantham family does in the TV series.
People who like reading about history, and especially about the truth behind TV series based on historical figures, will particularly enjoy this book.

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PUBLISHED
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Media, Inc., 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 7 sound discs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781452636849
1452636842

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
McCaddon, Wanda.
Tantor Media.

SUBJECTS
Carnarvon, Almina, -- Countess of, -- 1876-1969.
Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, -- Earl of, -- 1866-1923.
Highclere Castle.
Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.