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Author Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of.

Title Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : the lost legacy of Highclere Castle / The Countess of Carnarvon.

Publication Info. [Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, [2012]
℗2012

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  CDBK 92 CARNARVON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  SPO CD 942.1 CARNARVON DISCS 1-7    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Media Room  CD BOOK B CARNARVON, ALMINA, COUNTESS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CDBOOK 92 CARNARVON, GEO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  CD CARNARVON, C.    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Audio Materials  AUDIOBOOK CD BIOG CARNARVON, ALMINA    Check Shelf
Edition Retail edition.
Description 7 audio discs (8.00 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Title from container.
Performer Read by Wanda McCaddon.
Note Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Audience General adult.
Summary 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.
Contents Pomp and circumstance -- Welcome to Highclere -- Almina, debutante -- A triumph for her ladyship -- Life downstairs -- Dressing for dinner -- Edwardian Egypt -- The passing of the golden age -- The summer of 1914 -- Call to arms -- Paradise lost -- War heroes -- Hospital on the move -- Death in the trenches -- The dark times -- The promised end -- From war to peace -- Another glittering season -- "Wonderful things" -- Lights out -- Inheritance.
Note GMD: sound recording.
Subject 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.
Added Author McCaddon, Wanda.
Tantor Media.
ISBN 9781452606842
1452606846
9781452636849 library ed.
1452636842 library ed.
Standard No. 9781452606842 53999
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