Tutankhamun Centenary 2022: Almina, Countess of Carnarvon Goes to America in 1903
TUTANKHAMUN CENTENARY 2022 Almina Carnarvon Remembers Her Time In The USA In 1903 Oh! My Dears! I simply couldn’t stand America or the Americans. In January 1903 when my husband, Lord Carnarvon, was intent on a visit to the United States to buy race horses we were forced through illness to forfeit the passage booked on the RMS Celtic, due out of Liverpool on 14 January. The illness of our dear son Henry, Lord Porchester, who had a high temperature and a general malaise, detained us at our home at Highclere Castle . By the way, my dears, Henry was really Prince Victor Duleep Singh’s procreation. The poor boy suffered a succession of childhood pains and woes. We had to thrash him rather a lot too as he was a lazy boy and a wicked one. As we were setting off for Liverpool nanny and nurse both begged us to dally a while to see if Henry recovered his faculties. Dear, sweet, lovely Prince Victor, officially his godfather, who dotted on the bo