Lady Countess of Carnarvon
Fiona Carnarvon, 8th Countess of Carnarvon, is the wife of Geordie, 8th Earl of Carnarvon.
They live at Highclere Castle, known to millions around the world as ‘Downton Abbey’.
Lady Countess of Carnarvon is the best-selling author of seven books, a historian, an international speaker, and an established fundraiser in the UK and abroad. Her everyday life at Highclere ranges from welcoming visitors to her home to creating events to support charities, managing and restoring the castle’s historic buildings, gardening, filming, and directing the marketing of the Highclere brand. Lady Carnarvon manages other global endeavours, such as the award-winning Highclere Castle Gin.
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Fascinated by her predecessors at Highclere Castle, Lady Carnarvon explores the estate’s layers of history in her book Seasons at Highclere.
Full of lavish photographs and recipes from the Castle kitchens, Seasons concentrates on how the estate and gardens have grown and supplied produce to its community over hundreds of years. The book also celebrates Lady Carnarvon’s own enthusiasm for cooking for wellness. The Earl and the Pharaoh is a biography of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun with Howard Carter.
In her latest book, which has just been published, ‘A Year at Highclere, Secrets and Stories at the Real Downton Abbey’, Lady Countess of Carnarvon reveals what it truly means to live and work at this extraordinary home. From gardening, entertaining, exploring the outdoors with their dogs to opening the gates to a film crew, culminating in the latest Downton Abbey film. Highclere is where history, royalty, nature and community weave together.
Following a degree at St. Andrew’s University, Lady Countess of Carnarvon trained as a Chartered Accountant with what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers.
She is proud that Highclere Castle serves as an anchor to the past as well as an innovative member of the modern world.
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