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Highclere — A Masterpiece Classic
This isn't just a film set…it's also our home.
— Lady Fiona Carnarvon, quoted in
Time
magazine
Thanks to the international popularity of a new miniseries, Highclere Castle has become
one of the world's most recognizable great houses. The hugely successful drama
Downton
Abbey
has made Highclere into a tourist magnet in south central England.
Downton Abbey
may be why tourists come, but their experience here is the very real story
of Highclere Castle and the Carnarvon family who own and nurture this iconic estate. Truth
be told, there are some similarities between Downton's fictional Crawley family and High-
clere's Carnarvons. That story is the subject of
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
,
a book penned by the current Countess of Carnarvon.
Who built it…who owns it
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