April speaker - Countess of Carnarvon
9am for shopping with our loyal vendors and coffee, and 10am start with the meeting and our speaker.
Parking in Car Park 3 across from the entrance.
Fiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon lives at Highclere Castle, known to millions around the world as “Downton Abbey”. She is a best-selling author and historian, an international speaker and fundraiser in the UK and abroad. To date she has written New York Times bestsellers "Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey", "Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey" as well as "Seasons at Highclere" and "Christmas at Highclere".
Her latest book "The Earl and the Pharaoh" documents the life of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon. Carnarvon’s life, money and sudden death became front-page news throughout the world following his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun with Howard Carter. His beloved home, Highclere Castle, is today best-known as the set of Downton Abbey. Drawing on Highclere Castle’s never-before-plumbed archives, the Countess of Carnarvon, charts the twists of luck and tragedies that shaped Carnarvon’s life; his restless and enquiring mind that drove him to travel to escape conventional society life in Edwardian Britain.
