Новинки Fiona Carnarvon

Подлинная история, которая легла в основу знаменитого сериала "Аббатство Даунтон"! Трогательная история удивительной жизни женщины, которая хотела делать людям добро и для которой слово "патриотизм" не было пустым звуком. Ее звали Альмина Вумвелл, и ей было всего девятнадцать лет, когда она - богатейшая наследница Европы, красавица, прозванная "карманной Венерой" - вышла замуж за пятого графа Карнарвона, одного из столпов светского общества и будущего первооткрывателя гробницы Тутанхамона. Что же заставило королеву лондонских светских салонов, когда началась Первая мировая война, забыть о светских развлечениях и превратить прославленное…

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Catherine Wendell.
In this transporting companion piece to the New York Times bestseller Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, Catherine, a beautiful and spirited American woman who married Lady Almina’s son, the man who would become the 6th Earl of Carnarvon, presides over the grand estate during a tumultuous time for the British aristocracy. Following the First World War, many of the great houses of England faded as their owners fortunes declined in the new political and social world of the 1920s and 1930s. As war loomed, Highclere’s survival as the family home of the Carnarvons was again in the balance—as was peace between the nations of Europe.




Using copious materials—including diaries and scrapbooks—from the castle’s archives, the current Countess of Carnarvon brings alive a very modern story in a beautiful and fabled setting, paying particular attention to the staff who
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Highclere Castle with continuity between generations.

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey 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. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war. Much like her Masterpiece Classic counterpart Lady Cora Crawley, Lady Almina was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who married…