Gold mask of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun (1341-1323 BC)
100 years ago this autumn, Lord Carnarvon found Tutankhamun’s dazzling tomb. Eleanor Doughty talks to his great-grandson, the current Earl of Carnarvon
It must be peculiar to have one of the last century’s most remarkable events associated with your family.
This is something George ‘Geordie’ Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon, knows a lot about. In recent years, the Carnarvons have been best known as the custodians of Highclere Castle, the Hampshire stately home at which Julian Fellowes’s ITV drama Downton Abbey was filmed.
