{"id":22785,"date":"2015-01-26T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=22785"},"modified":"2015-01-22T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T21:23:58","slug":"lady-almina-and-the-real-downton-abbey-the-lost-legacy-of-highclere-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/lady-almina-and-the-real-downton-abbey-the-lost-legacy-of-highclere-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lady<\/a>Are you interested in finding out more about Downton Abbey? Do the characters intrigue you? The surroundings? If the answer is yes to any of those questions, check out Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lady Almina<\/em> tells the story of Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration for the hit PBS show, Downton Abbey. This book\u00a0follows the life of\u00a0Lady Almina, the\u00a05th Countess of Carnarvon, who\u00a0just happens to be\u00a0the basis for the Lady Cora Crawley on PBS’s Downton Abbey. The author of this book, the\u00a0current Countess of Carnarvon, intersperses actual pictures and documents from the Highclere archive with the family’s passed down memories to\u00a0map out\u00a0the story of the castle and its inhabitants on the brink of World War I. The marriage of Lady Almina and the Earl of Carnarvon was seen\u00a0by some\u00a0as a way to keep the castle afloat monetarily, given the scandal surrounding Lady Almina’s\u00a0birth, her biological father’s vast wealth, and the Earl of Carnarvon’s many expensive trips around the world. Lady Almina’s\u00a0will to always get her way, the support of her rich industrialist father Alfred de Rothschild(who just\u00a0never could tell her no), her husband’s desire to never see her upset, combined with her\u00a0large body of charity work, led her to transform the high society atmosphere of Highclere Castle into a hospital for wounded soldiers during World War I. Take a look into this book to gain a better understanding of life in England during World War I, as well as life of the real people of Downton Abbey.<\/p>\n

This book is also available as an eBook<\/a> and an audiobook<\/a> through the library catalog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you interested in finding out more about Downton Abbey? Do the characters intrigue you? The surroundings? If the answer is yes to any of those questions, check out Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle. Lady Almina tells the story of Highclere Castle,[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[442,2119],"class_list":["post-22785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-biography","tag-downton-abbey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5Vv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22785"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22803,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22785\/revisions\/22803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}