Porchey Carnarvon's Two Duped Wives : Catherine Wendell and Tilly Losch
Porchey Carnarvon ‘Hunting, Shooting and Flirting’ Names are deceptive. Take the Sixth Earl of Carnarvon: his full baptismal names were Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert but he was better known as just ‘Porchey’ Carnarvon. The name Porchey was a nickname derived from his courtesy title of ‘Lord Porchester’. Informally, family and friends addressed Henry as Porchey before and after 1923. This was the year when on 5th April ( at the age of twenty-four) he became the Sixth Earl of Carnarvon, succeeding his infamous predecessor George (the Fifth Earl) who was the Lord Carnarvon who discovered the priceless Tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. The Fifth Earl had used the same nickname of Porchey before he succeeded his father, Henry, the Fourth Earl. No doubt it continues for the Carnarvon heir-in-waiting who is currently the eldest son of George, (Jordy) the present Eighth Earl of Carnarvon. The Carnarvons are a cadet branch of the Herbe