The Life and Secrets of Almina Carnarvon

 

 

A candid biography of Almina, 5^th Countess of Carnarvon

of Tutankhamun Fame

 

By William Cross, FSA Scot

 

Third Edition of the book from 15 December 2011

 

ISBN 10 1-905914-08-3

 

ISBN 13  978-1-905914-08-1

 

What’s New in the Revised Edition

 

Sharper type face  - Restoration of End Notes

 

-Enhancements to text- Updates on research

 

More Highlights

 

 

• Restoration of the 844 End Notes published in the first edition on 22 April 2011.

 

• Revision and Enhancement of  End Notes in first edition with a larger sized typeface.

 

• The third Version now contains 923 End Notes over 60 pages  - even better reflecting a comment from one reader of the first edition who said it was “ two books in one ”

 

• More background on Almina’s French and Spanish heritage through her mother, Marie Boyer.

 

• Further details about Frederick Charles Wombwell, the man who appears on Almina’s birth certificate as her father.

 

• More reasons outlined that cast much further doubt on Alfred de Rothschild ever fathering Almina Wombwell.

 

•  A closer examination on how Marie Boyer ( Mrs Frederick Wombwell ) first met Alfred de Rothschild.

 

• Further commentary on the paternity issues relating to Almina, and her children.

 

• A critical appraisal of  Alfred de Rothschild’s Last Will and Testament

 

• Additional information and references to Almina’s role as a nurse at Highclere Military Hospital in the Great War,  and as matron of Alfred House Nursing Home, from 1927 until 1939.

 

• Additional details on several of Almina’s patients at Highclere Military Hospital, Alfred House Nursing Home, The Red House, Hove and The Glebe, Barnet