The Curse of the Carnarvons of Highclere Castle

                                                                                                 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...

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...