Title: Ledi Alʹmina i abbatstvo Daunton
Description: 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: World War, 1914-1918, Highclere Castle, Nobility, Biography, Social life and customs
Places: Great Britain
People: Almina Carnarvon Countess of (1876-1969), George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert Carnarvon Earl of (1866-1923)
Time periods: 20th century