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George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (born 10 November 1956), styled Lord Porchester from 1987 to 2001, is a British peer and farmer. His family seat, Highclere Castle, has achieved notability as the primary filming location for television series' Downton Abbey and Jeeves and Wooster. Carnarvon and his family live in ...
The family seat of the Herbert Earls of Carnarvon is Highclere Castle in Hampshire, which was the filming location for the UK television series Downton Abbey. The traditional burial place of the Herbert Earls of Carnarvon is the Carnarvon Mausoleum, located in the park at Highclere Castle; [ 5 ] some other family members are buried in the ...
Lady and Lord Carnarvon at the races in June 1921. Lord Carnarvon married Almina Victoria Maria Alexandra Wombwell, [5] alleged to be the illegitimate daughter of millionaire banker Alfred de Rothschild, [6] of the Rothschild family, at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, on 26 June 1895.
On 7 January 1956, Carnarvon (then known by his courtesy title Lord Porchester) married Jean Margaret Wallop (1935–2019) of Big Horn, Wyoming, [2] in St. James' Episcopal Church in New York City. [16] She was a granddaughter of Oliver Wallop, 8th Earl of Portsmouth. [17] Carnarvon's father, the 6th Earl had also married an Anglo-American. [18]
In December 1923, eight months after Lord Carnarvon's death, Lady Carnarvon married Lieutenant Colonel Ian Onslow Dennistoun, a retired Grenadier Guards officer. [18]In 1925, Almina was involved in a much-publicised High Court case, known as the "Bachelor's Case", between Colonel Dennistoun and his former wife, Dorothy Dennistoun.
Thus Lord Carnarvon received a very large dowry. Rothschild père also made her the heiress to his vast fortune. At the beginning of World War I, a hospital for war wounded was opened at Highclere Castle, with Lady Carnarvon helping with the organisation and assisting as a nurse. [30]
The world is a greyer and quieter place without him, writes Lady Fiona Carnarvon, the real countess of Downton Abbey Voices: Real countess of Downton Abbey remembers her ‘unique friend’ Kit ...
Following his divorce from Catherine, Lord Carnarvon married Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Losch, an Austrian dancer with the stage name Tilly Losch, on 1 September 1939. They divorced in 1947. [15] On his death on 22 September 1987 aged 88, he was succeeded by his son, Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon.