The author would begin telling a story and then pivot to sharing about some random person and then pivot back. Inside the tomb, the explorers found King Tut’s sarcophagus and a treasure trove of astonishing artifacts: chariots and model boats, board games and paintings, a coffin made of pure gold. At one point, the author jumped numerous years between paragraphs and it wasn't clear which made it extremely confusing.

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But much more on this could be cited from the Earl’s father’s diaries ( held by the British Museum) but after the 4th Earl’s death Elsie Howard, the second 4th Countess took a razor blade and removed scores of the pages of the diaries where an entry did not show the family in a proper or decent light.Well, maybe I’m too middle class, but I’m disappointed that instead of hearing about Carnarvon’s association with the finding of Tutankhamen’s tomb, I’m reading about a bunch of upper class wasters, who like huntin’ shootin’ and yachting around the world. One moment we'd be in Egypt, the next in England, and back and forth throughout a chapter which was disorienting.

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Oh dear, what could have been an interesting biography of the Earl of Carnarvon came out as a lifeless list of people attending various functions and what they wore.I liked that she didn't just gloss over childhood and youth as some biographies have a tendency to do. The author is the wife of the eighth Earl of Carnarvon as well as the caretaker of the vast family castle, Highclere, now famous as the locus of the TV show Downton Abbey.

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None of the other works demonstrated just how much trouble the press and public gave the dig in slowing down the preservation process after the discovery. Though her work was far from the Broadway shows she dreamed about, it eventually became all about the nightly hustle to simply survive. This talk, gven by Lady Carnarvon, 8th Countess Carnarvon, draws on the never-before-seen archives of the Earl’s beloved home, Highclere Castle (known to millions as the setting for Downtown Abbey). There was more to him that that, however, as the Countess of Carnarvon’s enjoyable new biography demonstrates.Marjorie Taylor Greene, and adviser Rudy Giuliani, recounting how Giuliani groped her backstage during Trump’s Jan.

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The Earl himself was very likable and interesting, kind to all, and got along well with all types of people. If you have already purchased tickets you can use the button below to login, then view, download and print them.I’m a couple of chapters in and I just can’t push through, I hope to get through it to see the actual story about discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb at some point. I didn't get a feel of how The Earl came to go there in his early years, just 2 mentions 'oh and he went to Egypt'. Frank and unapologetic, Johnson vividly captures aspects of her former life as a stage seductress shimmying to blues tracks during 18-minute sets or sewing lingerie for plus-sized dancers.