![]() ![]() ![]() Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon (1898–1987), who married Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell and had one son, ( the 7th Earl) and one daughter. ![]() On 26 June 1895, aged 19, she married George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon at St Margaret's, Westminster. This included a £500,000 trust on her marriage and, on Rothschild's death in 1918, £50,000 and his Mayfair house with its art collection, much of which she sold. However, her biological father was the banker Alfred de Rothschild, of the Rothschild family, who provided her with considerable wealth. She was born Almina Victoria Maria Alexandra Wombwell, in Mayfair, London, the nominal child of Marie "Mina" Wombwell (née Boyer), the French wife of Captain Frederick Charles Wombwell, a businessman and retired British Army officer. It was her wealth that funded the search for Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt. After her second marriage, she became Mrs Almina Dennistoun, although she called herself Almina Carnarvon. Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon (née Wombwell 14 April 1876 – ), was the wife of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and châtelaine of Highclere Castle in Hampshire. ![]()
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