From the family
A small selection of photographs from the family’s own albums, pictures that do not appear in books or on tours. Lady Carnarvon has added a note to each, in her own words.
Shared with Friends onlyc. 1949
“My husband’s grandmother in the saloon, she wore this dress to every Christmas gathering, and would never say where it came from.”
Lady Carnarvon
Summer 1936
“The whole household on the south lawn. The little boy at the front left grew up to run the estate for forty years.”
Lady Carnarvon
1942
“The evacuee children on the east steps. Some of them wrote to the family for the rest of their lives, and their letters are in our archive still.”
Lady Carnarvon
June 1953
“Preparing for the Coronation. The bunting in this photograph was found folded in the attics two years ago, we used it again.”
Lady Carnarvon
A few more pages are added to the album each season, quietly, and only here.