Lord and Lady Carnarvon outside their home, Highclere Castle, the setting for the series.
ON SUNDAY evening, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon settle down in front of an unreliable television in the study at Highclere Castle, in Hampshire, and look forward to an hour of what the historian A.N. Wilson denounces as sanitised fantasy. Even if the fantasy in question, Downton Abbey, had not saved them from debt and made their home the most bankable country house in th… (View original article)