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In this retrospective on the 5th Earl, William Cross ( biographer of Lady Almina Carnarvon) offers a portrait of his very early days within a family saga, based on diaries and correspondence of the 4th Earl, Lordy's father. Here, is Lord Carnarvon in a fresh light, one that has hitherto been buried as deep as the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb.Cross also reveals exactly how Lord Carnarvon died in Egypt in 1923 - on the testimony of Almina - who was at the Earl's bedside, suffice to say it was NOT as a result of a mosquito bite!!