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The Life and Secrets of Almina Carnarvon
William P. Cross
其他書名
A Candid Biography of the 5th Countess of Carnarvon of Tutankhamun Fame
出版William P. Cross, 2011
ISBN19059140839781905914081
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d_czMwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Almina Carnarvon has left behind a curse as deadly as the one that overshadowed her legendary husband, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, The 5th Earl of Carnarvon, co-discoverer with Howard Carter of the Tomb of Tutankhamun. She ploughed through a King's ransom, inherited from one of the Rothschild family, leaving her playboy son enraged. In the Great War she reigned supreme as a society leader who abandoned her comfy drawing room to treat wounded officers at her own expense. Her later plush nursing homes served the rich, famous and privileged, earning her celebrity status. She controlled men like a puppet master and she lost everything to bakruptcy. This book offers insight into Almina's life and times and her many secrets. The narrative reveals a riches-to-rags story over nine decades of the barely 5 feet high, Pocket Venus plunged into an artificial marriage with a boorish, craggy-faced earl, ten years her senior, a virtual invalid who failed as a companion and a lover. Almina reinvented herself several times, married twice, she lived with a business partner for 20 years, entirely undisclosed to her family, who walked in the highest echelons of society, swindled her son and ended her days in a ordinary terraced house in Bristol, perishing at 93, in a horrendous "accident" in 1969"--Publisher description.