Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : the lost legacy of Highclere Castle by Carnarvon Fiona Countess of

Author:Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Carnarvon, Almina, Countess of, 1876-1969, Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, Earl of, 1866-1923, Highclere Castle, Nobility, World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York : Broadway Paperbacks
Published: 2011-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY

machine and fabrics, organising work teams to make up the equipment that was so desperately needed. She started a canteen for the ANZAC forces and provided all the cutlery and crockery. One day the men got so rowdy that plates and cups were smashed, and Elsie took it upon herself to march in there and demand what they thought they were doing. What would their mothers say? Something in her manner brought the fracas to a halt, and when the men realised who she was and what she had done for them, they lined up to apologise to her.

Meanwhile, David Campbell had struck lucky. He was assessed as suitable for return to Britain and, having avoided the Egyptian military hospitals, he sailed out of Alexandria on the Aquitania. Conditions aboard could most generously be described as basic. Everyone got dysentery, including David. He had splinters of lead removed from his gunshot wounds without any anaesthetic. Unsurprisingly, his foot became gangrenous, and was marked for amputation, but then the surgeon fell sick and was too ill to carry out the operation, so David arrived back in Britain still in possession of both feet. In Southampton his luck held and he was tagged for Highclere. So, in mid-September, he bumped up from the south coast in an ambulance with three other patients, all of them groaning every time they were jolted over a pothole. The trailer rumbled up to the front of the house and David was helped out and into a wheelchair by a footman, who pushed him carefully across the gravel drive and in through the front door of Highclere.

As always, Almina was there to welcome the new arrivals, accompanied by two nurses. It took two footmen to help David make his way up the ornate carpeted stairs, past the

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