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Audie Honor Nominee, Biography and Memoir, 2013 Woman Almina and the true Downton Abbey explains to the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life ideas and arranging for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS series, and the life span of 1 of its most well-known inhabitants: Woman Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Pulling on a wealthy store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, words, and photographs, the existing Woman Carnarvon has written a transporting report of the fabled home on the brink of conflict. Much like her Masterpiece Antique counterpart Woman Cora Crawley, Woman Almina was the girl of a prosperous industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who wedded his girl off at a young years, her dowry serving as the crucial link in the effort to preserve the Earl of Carnarvon's ancestral home. Throwing open the entry doors of Highclere Castle to tend to the wounded of World Battle I, Woman Almina distinguished herself as a courageous and remarkable female. This rich story contrasts the splendor of Edwardian life in a great house against the background of the First World Battle and offers an inspiring and revealing picture of the woman at the center of the annals of Highclere Castle.
