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Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell : 1900-1977 : 6th Countess of Carnarvon :

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                                                                                                 Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell   1900-1977  6th Countess of Carnarvon Catherine Wendell was born Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell, from a family with long and notable history in America and Holland . The Wendells settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and New York. Famous for her good looks, Catherine Wendell left  America  in 1911, homeless at the age of ten. She was brought to  Britain  by her widowed mother,  Marian Fendall Wendell, who was living in much reduced circumstances after her actor  husband’s death. Catherine was accompanied by her three siblings, two older brothers and a younger sister. As Cather...
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Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey : Will Cross Reviews Highclere's Version of the life Catherine Wendell

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Lady Catherine, the Earl, &  the Real Downton Abbey   Fiona Carnarvon  Published by Hodder & Stoughton ( 2013)                                          A BOOK REVIEW                             BY WILLIAM CROSS, FSA SCOT Author of " CATHERINE AND TILLY : PORCHY CARNARVON'S TWO DUPED WIVES" The  basis of  this elegantly written sketch on the life and times of Catherine Wendell, ( 1900-1977),  the Sixth Countess of Carnarvon - with  a fleeting  glance to Tilly Losch, the other Sixth Countess-    is that it’s another Highclere spin off to cash-in on its television fame.  Both women married  Porchey- the Sixth Earl, who spent his life hunting, shooting and flirting.   The Earl was a rascal who rode race horses and was an over active...
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Almina Wombwell, 5th Countess of Carnarvon : A Slave To Duty

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                Almina Wombwell, 5th  Countess of  Carnarvon                                                A Slave To Duty Almina Wombwell, later Herbert, 5th Countess of Carnarvon Almina,  Lady Carnarvon,  was a slave to duty. She demonstrated this most admirably as a nurse in the Great War running two military hospitals for wounded soldiers/officers  at  Highclere Castle and  48,   Bryanston Square, London . Almina glowed like a beacon of light when   she later turned down an honour from King George V   for this   heroic work,   saying   she considered   she was only doing her duty!     George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle & Tutankhamun Almina   saw it   as   duty too (but not for love) when she ...
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