New Book: Lies, Damned Lies and the Carnarvons of Highclere Castle

 

Lies, Damned Lies and the Carnarvons

Compiled by William Cross, FSA Scot

Published 1 September 2022

“Some books are lies frae end tae end”  Robert Burns

In this new offering  William Cross, FSA Scot  ( author of several  books on the Carnarvon family of Highclere Castle)  drills down to reveal the tissue of  lies, misrepresentations and bad history  in the timeline and narrative  in  the discovery of the Tomb of  Tutankhamun.

 

Among the lies flushed out  is the chronology of the  near fatal car accident in Germany that was deemed the reason Lord Carnarvon  first went to Egypt, discredited here with  the real influence given  for the Earl taking up digging for Royal tombs.

 

The funding for  many  years  work  in the sand dunes at Luxor from the Countess Almina’s access to  Alfred de  Rothschild’s money  rightly  celebrates what Almina brought to the discovery, but why did Rothschild pay up when he was certainly NOT her father ( as claimed by Highclere)?

 

The reality  of the 20- year  relationship  between Lord Carnarvon and his devoted physician ‘Dr Johnny’ is revealed – in  old age the  doctor’s tongue was too loose for comfort that  he  was shipped off to a lunatic asylum.

 

Other lies surround  Lord Carnarvon’s alliance with Howard Carter .  Were they an item?    

 

Not least is the mystery  surrounding the circumstances of Carnarvon’s  death in a hotel room in  Cairo after a mosquito bite.   Unconscious, dying, with the Great Sword of Damocles hanging over him until his wife Almina,  the nurse,  arrived with a bag full of morphine.

 

As the centenary  of the great find approaches  on 4 November 2022,  it demands  that  any  incorrect  elements  in the  historical record are  expunged.  

 

Truth  matters!

HOW TO GET THE BOOK

 

£10.00 ( INC P&P UK)   DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR. PLEASE EMAIL     williecross@aol.com

 

He will then send you details of how to pay for the book by Bank Transfer

 

Amazon link :  https://amzn.to/3fJMj93

 

Ebay link : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204089212208

 

 

ISBN 10 1905914776  ISBN 13 9781905914777

Published by William P. Cross

Book Midden Publishing

CONTACT WILLIAM CROSS BY EMAIL FOR DETAILS

williecross@aol.com

Endorsements:  Dr Nicholas Reeves (British Egyptologist)  : “ I have followed your new dating in my book  ‘The Complete Tutankhamun’, and also your remarks on Carnarvon's health.”

 

Dr Carola Vogel (German Egyptologist):   “Be assured, I will support your  investigations into the date of Lord Carnarvon’s motor car  accident in Germany  and try to convince my colleagues to change their minds!” 

 

Professor Brian Fagan  ( Author or "Lord and Pharaoh: Carnarvon and the Search for Tutankhamun" ( 2015). )  “I hope that it is a success for you.” 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE AUTHOR WILLIAM CROSS BY EMAIL

williecross@aol.com

Prince Victor Duleep Singh and Lord George Carnarvon : A Romantic Friendship

A Romantic Friendship

Prince Victor Duleep Singh 

and 

Lord George Carnarvon 

At the heart of this story is a “romantic friendship”.

This  is an old Victorian term for a special connection of friendship, usually between two men or two women.

It may or may not have a sexual [carnal] connotation; it can be physical and/or emotional and may border on a deeper, profound love. Between two men it is often referred to as being  “platonic” [i].

There was certainly much more than an ordinary friendship in the constancy between  Prince Victor Duleep Singh ( nicknamed  ‘Tulip’)  and  George  Carnarvon, starting from when George was Lord Porchester (nicknamed  ‘Porchey’), the Herbert ( Carnarvon /Highclere)  heir in waiting as the 5^th Earl. 

Victor was also the heir to his father’s title of Maharaja of Lahore, although he never  subsequently claimed that style of name or address after his father died in 1893. Victor adored his mother’s family in Egypt, he never understood his father and his wrath against Queen Victoria, but was proud of their Indian roots.

The closeness and fondness of Porchey and Victor ran through as pre-pubescent boys  from their Eton College schooldays in the early 1880s until Victor’s death in 1918.

There were deeply felt  emotional needs they both had that was satisfied from the other in a rare devotion that endured for almost 40 years.

The two of them found a means of survival as dubbed “odd balls”[ii], bullied by their fathers, with often distant mothers, and  mocked by their peer group. It was a union with one another that was unbreakable.

Later they travelled the world with privacy assured on board Porchey’s yachts. They often hid away at Bretby Park, a property in Derbyshire that Porchey inherited in 1887 (upon his  coming of age, of  21). The two of them spent long periods of time there, enjoying lots of sport, especially shooting, with only a few trusted retainers to wait on them hand and foot.

After Porchey became Lord Carnarvon (from 1890) and married Almina Wombwell in 1895, Victor remained an unvarying presence in the lives of the Carnarvons.  His Lordship’s love for his best friend was unfailing.  Almina  accepted that love and she came to tolerate their closeness, and, in time,  grew fond of  Victor.  He was always at their side, or on call, he held the Carnarvon’s peculiar marriage together, and, is, almost certainly,  the 6th Earl’s father.

The  books published  by the 6th Earl and the  present day Carnarvons  are tardy and economical with the facts about Victor.  Others too  have missed the point. The point is  simple.  This is  overwhelming a  story of the love between  Tulip Singh and Porchey Carnarvon.

The Carnarvons  may owe Victor their continuity. But the Herberts go no further than  acknowledging that Victor was a regular visitor to Highclere  Castle – as  he is often in the Castle’s Visitors Record. 

They add a few unexceptional anecdotes of him as a great sportsman and the godfather of the 6th Earl (as Lord Porchester) from 1898. The memoirs of Henry, the 6th Earl, whilst proclaiming his mother Almina’s alleged illegitimacy (as the daughter of Alfred de Rothschild), withholds the real truth of his own illegitimacy that he knew, as Almina told him all about Victor. [iii] 

It is a bad reflection that the truth  continues unsaid  of Victor’s role in sustaining the advance of  the Herbert family; it is because it  remains a curse.[iv]

THIS IS AN EXTRACT FROM A NEW BOOK BY WILLIAM CROSS

MORE ON PRINCE VICTOR DULEEP SINGH 

AND THE CURSE OF THE CARNARVONS

PUBLISHED  4 AUGUST 2022

Enquiries : Contact the Author, William Cross, FSA Scot

https://twitter.com/Victor_Duleep?lang=en-gb

EMAIL 

williecross@aol.com

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[i] This concept originates in the ideas of the ancient philosopher Plato, from whose name the term is derived.

[ii] Tony Leadbetter Interviews 2009-2019.

[iii] Ibid.

[iv] See the book by William  Cross “Prince Victor Duleep Singh and the Curse of the Carnarvons” Book Midden Publishing. (2019).

MORE ON PRINCE VICTOR DULEEP SINGH AND THE CURSE OF THE CARNARVONS

 

NEW BOOK FROM WILLIAM CROSS, FSA SCOT

NOW AVAILABLE

MORE ON PRINCE VICTOR DULEEP SINGH 

AND THE CURSE OF THE CARNARVONS

PUBLISHED  4 AUGUST 2022

AVAILABLE DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR  ( UK ONLY)  £10.00 

including p&p

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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PATERNITY OF HENRY ( PORCHEY )  CARNARVON
6th EARL OF CARNARVON

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