1866

26 June, 1866 George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert was born to an aristocratic family at the family seat of Highclere Castle, Hampshire, England. 

 

Lie!  George was born   at 66, Grosvenor Street,  London  on 26 June, 1866   He was  however baptized at  Highclere on 5 August 1866           [ Sources;: The Times;  British Newspaper Archives, General Register Office and Find My Past website.]

1895

June 26, 1895 Lord Carnarvon married Almina Victoria Maria Alexandra Wombwell. They subsequently had a son called Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert and a daughter called Lady Evelyn Herbert

 

Lie ! Almina’s son Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert was fathered by Prince Victor Duleep Singh, the eldest son of Maharaja Duleep Singh of Lahore and a heritage figure among British Sikhs as Britain’s first ever  Sikh settler.

 [ Sources : Highclere Castle -headed notepaper and letter written by DS a guide at Highclere and commissioned by the 7th Earl of Carnarvon as  the first biographer of Almina, Countess of Carnarvon- the original letter is held by  TL the godson of Almina, Countess of Carnarvon.  See also the books  “The Life and Secrets of Almina Carnarvon” and “ Lordy! Tutankhamun’s Patron As A Young Man”  by William Cross.]

 

 

 

 

1901

Lord Carnarvon suffered a very serious motoring accident in Germany which left him significantly disabled and in poor health

 

Damned Lie! Especially when this accident is cited as the reason that Carnarvon first visited Egypt, from 1901.   Lord Carnarvon was involved in  a very serious motoring accident in Germany, but this was  not until 1909, by which time he had teamed up with Howard Carter. Carnarvon ( as Lord Porchester ) first  visited Egypt from 1889 ( thereafter often with Prince Victor Duleep Singh – where Victor’s mother’s family lived). The trips by Carnarvon to Egypt   included several  visits with Almina - for his health- well before 1901. Lord Carnarvon and Almina joined Prince Victor Duleep Singh and his wife Lady Anne Coventry  for the Prince’s honeymoon to  Egypt  in 1898. 

[ Sources : British Newspaper Archives; UKpressonline and The Times.  See also books on the Carnarvons by William Cross]

 

907

Lord Carnarvon had become a keen amateur archaeologist and in this year was introduced to Howard Carter by Gaston Maspero, the Director-General of the Department of Antiquities at Egypt's Antiquities Service. This meeting started their successful partnership excavating at Thebes in Egypt

 

Lie!  Carter worked  for Lord Carnarvon from 1907. The two men met in 1905-6. Carter was a middle man and dealer of various antiquities on and off the international black market.

[ Source: Research by William Cross, FSA Scot – biographer of Almina, Countess of Carnarvon ]

1914

Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon receive a licence to dig in the Valley of the Kings from the Egyptian Antiquities Service. Carnarvon acts as the financier 

 

Lie! The digging was financed by Almina though her benefactor Baron Alfred de Rothschild. Lord Carnarvon only used some of the financial legacy from Alfred ( after 1918) to restore digging operations from 1919 onwards. [ Source: Research by William Cross, FSA Scot – biographer of Almina, Countess of Carnarvon.]

 

 

1922

Howard Carter visits Highclere Castle and Lord Carnarvon gives him just one more season of funding to find the tomb
 

 

Lie!  At the time of Carnarvon’s meeting with Carter over  future season’s Carnarvon  was already  dying. He knew that the following year would be his last on earth and almost certainly told Carter of  being in extremis.

[  Sources : Almina Carnarvon ‘s godson.  Research by William Cross, FSA Scot – biographer of Almina, Countess of Carnarvon.]

 

 

 

 

1922

26 November 1922: Carter makes the famous "tiny breach in the top left hand corner" of the tomb doorway accompanied by Lord Carnarvon and his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert. Carnarvon asks him if he can see anything, Carter replies: "Yes, wonderful things"

 

Lie!  Carter replied to Carnarvon’s question with one word - “ Wonders!” [ Sources :  Howard Carter and Almina’s  Carnarvon’s  account – from her husband and daughter, Lady Evelyn.]

1923

5 April 1923: Lord Carnarvon dies in Cairo of pneumonia and septicaemia after nicking a mosquito bite with his cut-throat razor. This sparks speculation by the press about the Curse of the Pharaohs.

 

Damned Lie!  Lord Carnarvon died from a terminal illness ( throat cancer). Besides this fact ( from evidence given to a friend by Almina, Countess of Carnarvon, the octogenarian in question survives ) there are numerous other errors on Lord Carnarvon’s  death certificate.  Almina’s  heroic attendance from England to be at Carnarvon’s bedside – as a nurse  trained in the use of morphine as a war time nurse in military hospitals ( and  able to access  such drugs thorough her network of  many medical friends ) begs the question of whether Almina  ensured  that Carvarvon slipped away painlessly  with the administration of morphine.  How could she have done this with others watching over the dying Carnarvon?   Commenting on this Almina’s godson said  “ Almina considered herself superior to everyone. She would have simply ordered everybody out of the room where Lord Carnarvon lay ill.  She was his wife  she was entitled to ask – demand even- to be left to tend her husband last hours.”

[ Sources : Research by William Cross, FSA Scot and interviews with TL the godson of Almina, Countess of Carnarvon.]

ALL THESE POINTS ARE DISCUSSED IN THE LIFE AND SECRETS OF ALMINA CARNARVON : A CANDID BIOGRAPHY OF  THE 5TH COUNTESS OF CARNARVON OF TUTANKHAMUN FAME ”  BOOK MIDDEN PUBLISHING ( 2011)  AND   “ LORDY! TUTANKHAMUN’S PATRON  AS A YOUNG MAN” BY WILLIAM CROSS BOOK MIDDEN PUBLISHING ( 2012).