What Readers Say About Almina's Secrets

Book Reviews  and Press Comments

 

What the Papers Say About Lady Almina Carnarvon

 The Independent

...Who can blame Fiona Carnarvon for battering out a book about  Lady Almina.........". But it's harder to ignore her glossing over all the embarrassing sexy details about Almina Carnarvon......"   " Though she does describe how Almina was the illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild, she doesn't go into her reputation for promiscuity as chronicled by William Cross in his book, The Life and Secrets of Almina Carnarvon. Best leave those family skeletons in the cup- board, eh?
 
Matthew Bell: The IoS Diary (25/09/11) The Independent

The Guardian  

The author of " Lady Almina"  can readily be excused for wishing to exploit the link to Downton Abbey. It's less easy to exonerate her decision to ignore William Cross's startling account (in The Life and Secrets of Almina Carnarvon) of a promiscuous and ambitious – yet admirable – woman whose calamitous fall makes for more compelling reading....

Miranda Seymour : The Guardian 17 September 2011 ( Online version 15 September 2011)

 

Enquiries to williecross@virginmedia.com

 

The Mirror Cracked : 14 September 2011

The Daily Mirror's Article and Apology to William Cross 

                                                            USA PAPERS

How wonderfully perceptive of the book reviewer of the Star-Ledger- NJ.com  to pick up on the fact that Highclere’s version of Almina Carnarvon’s life is “ not an entirely historically accurate portrait of Lady Almina.”   18 December 2011