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

356 Pages·2011·56.953 MB·English
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rnrnm THE LOST LEGACY OF HIGHCLERE CASTLE jj 5 1 1' p • y . S w THE COUNTE RN ARVOft BEL-TIB NEW BIOGRAPHY Bio Carnarvon Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of Lady Almina and the real Downton Abb^y : the lost legacy of Highclere Castle LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY THE LOST LEGACY OL HIGHCLERE CASTLE DATE DUE GAYLORD #3523PI Printed in USA LADYALMINA AND THE REAL <E) OWNTON AB B EY THE LOST LEGACY OL HIGHCLERE CASTLE THE 'COUNTESS OF CARNARVON Broadway Paperbacks New York BROADWAY Copyright © 2011 by The Countess of Carnarvon All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com Broadway Paperbacks and its logo, a letter B bisected on the diagonal, are trademarks of Random House, Inc. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette U.K. company, London, in 2011. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. ISBN 978-0-7704-3562-2 elSBN 978-0-7704-3563-9 Printed in the United States of America Cover design by Laura Klynstra Cover photography: © Highclere Casde Archive Author photograph: © Tobi Corney Photography 10 9 8 7 6 5 First U.S. Edition For my husband and son, who I adore, and my beloved sisters Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/ladyalminarealOOcarn Contents Prologue ix Chapter i: Pomp and Circumstance i Chapter 2: Welcome to Highclere 15 Chapter 3: Almina, Debutante 27 Chapter 4: A Triumph for Her Ladyship 43 Chapter 5: Life Downstairs 53 Chapter 6: Dressing for Dinner 71 Chapter 7: Edwardian Egypt 89 Chapter 8: The Passing of the Golden Age 103 Chapter 9: The Summer of 1914 121 Chapter 10: Call to Arms 129 Chapter 11: Paradise Lost 141 Chapter 12: War Heroes 153 Chapter 13: Hospital on the Move 165 Chapter 14: Death in the Trenches 177 Chapter 15: The Dark Times - 193 Chapter 16: The Promised End 203 Chapter 17: From War to Peace 219 Chapter 18: Another Glittering Season 233 Chapter 19: ‘Wonderful Things’ 247 Chapter 20: Lights Out 259 Chapter 21: Inheritance 275 Vll Epilogue: Almina’s Legacy 287 Acknowledgements 293 Transcripts 295 Index OJ 0 M1 Vlll

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